[Bryn-gwlad] Leatherworking

[kcmarsh at suddenlink.net]

I'm thinking Thursday Feb. 15, 7:00 PM at my house in Georgetown.

Discussion topics:  
Overview of medieval leathercrafts 
Overview of leather working techniques
Projects and pictures for show and tell
Planning for more focused future sessions

Sound good?

Maelgwyn

---- SS ALLEN <ssilvanage at yahoo.com> wrote: 
> 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
> > 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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