[Bryn-gwlad] Leatherworking

[SS ALLEN]

Sounds great!  Gee, we're getting a much better
response than we thought we would.
Any idea on when we could get started?
Ilariia

--- Holly Bjorum <hbjorum at gmail.com> wrote:

> Yeah! I would certainly be interested! Anyone else?
> Gunwarder? Ilariia?
> 
> Holly
> 
> On 2/1/07, kcmarsh at suddenlink.net
> <kcmarsh at suddenlink.net> wrote:
> > 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
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> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > >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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