[Bryn-gwlad] Leatherworking

[kcmarsh at suddenlink.net]

Yes, but Wednesday is Valentine's day that week.  I think we can conflict with armour night this one time and perhaps schedule future meetings around it.

I will be at practice tomorrow at 6:30 if anyone wants to talk shop a bit before we all start fighting.  I will bring maps and directions.

Maelgwyn

---- Ty Silvanage <ghetto_cowboy1984 at yahoo.com> wrote: 
> thursday is arouring at Sir Gastons'
>                               Ty
>   
> 
> kcmarsh at suddenlink.net wrote:
>   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 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 wrote:
> > 
> > > Yeah! I would certainly be interested! Anyone else?
> > > Gunwarder? Ilariia?
> > > 
> > > Holly
> > > 
> > > On 2/1/07, 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 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" 
> > > > > >Reply-To: Barony of Bryn Gwlad
> > > 
> 
> > > > > >To: "Barony of Bryn Gwlad"
> > > 
> 
> > > > > >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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