[Bryn-gwlad] Leatherworking

[caladin]

I do alot of various types of leather work off and on, Pouches, belts, 
bombards, carving,
armor, toys, etc.

Cal-

Holly Bjorum wrote:

>Greetings All,
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>I am interested in Leatherworking, and understand that the Guild is
>(more or less) inactive.
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>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?
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>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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