[Bryn-gwlad] Leatherworking

[Ed Shelton]

I can attest to Maelgwyn's skill with leatherworking and making leather 
armor.  He does good stuff and it's very period as well.

Giotto



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>From: <kcmarsh at suddenlink.net>
>Reply-To: Barony of Bryn Gwlad <bryn-gwlad at lists.ansteorra.org>
>To: Barony of Bryn Gwlad <bryn-gwlad at lists.ansteorra.org>
>Subject: Re: [Bryn-gwlad] Leatherworking
>Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2007 16:40:20 -0600
>
>I also have some experience with leather tooling, shaping, hardening, dying 
>and painting as well as working with rawhide.  As it turns out I may have 
>some unexpected free time in the next couple of months so I could host a 
>workshop session or three if there is interest.
>
>Maelgwyn
>
>---- Ed Shelton <shelton_ed at hotmail.com> wrote:
> > I do lots of leather armor and will be happy to help you out.
> >
> > Have shop and will work for stick time,
> >
> > Giotto
> >
> >
> >
> > It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and 
>not
> > to deserve them. -- Mark Twain
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > >From: "Holly Bjorum" <hbjorum at gmail.com>
> > >Reply-To: Barony of Bryn Gwlad <bryn-gwlad at lists.ansteorra.org>
> > >To: "Barony of Bryn Gwlad" <bryn-gwlad at lists.ansteorra.org>
> > >Subject: [Bryn-gwlad] Leatherworking
> > >Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2007 00:03:41 -0600
> > >
> > >Greetings All,
> > >
> > >I am interested in Leatherworking, and understand that the Guild is
> > >(more or less) inactive.
> > >
> > >I was wondering if anyone else in the Barony was interested in any
> > >aspects of the craft - from tanning to design.  If so, who is
> > >interested in being participatory?
> > >
> > >Does anyone have areas of expertise they'd be willing to share on a
> > >regular and/or occasional basis? I'd like to start learning some
> > >period techniques for working with leather to construct objects - garb
> > >pieces, armor, utilitarian items like bags/scabbards/skeins, artistic
> > >items like masks/crypto-taxidermy preps, etc.
> > >
> > >I have experience in taxidermy through my mundane education and prior
> > >work, but am unfamiliar with period methods (Written accounts of
> > >preserved specimens date back to Aristotle and the Musaion - now
> > >referred to as the Library at Alexandria, and "Cabinets of Curiosity"
> > >were popular beginning in the 1500's, some included natural history
> > >specimens and crypto-taxidermy preps - perhaps the most famous was the
> > >Kunstkamer of Peter the Great of the early 1700's, but others were
> > >known before then, like Ole Worm's personal collection c.1620 and the
> > >Tradescant collection of the Ashmolean Museum - c.1600).  I am
> > >interested in learning, and would be willing to research and possibly
> > >teach a class in period taxidermy techniques at a later date (at the
> > >very earliest we'd have to wait for hunting season to start up again
> > >so we have materials to work with).
> > >
> > >Please let me know, I have the interest, but alas, not the workspace.
> > >
> > >Holly
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