A crafty lifestyle blog
At Pennsic this year, two of the leatherworking merchants got together and held a Leatherworker’s Roundtable – a simple gathering of leatherworkers, to meet, ask questions, and discuss techniques with one another for two hours. It was fantastic! Here are my notes on the new tips I learned. Resources The Metropolitan Museum of Art has
A problem with fencing gloves is that we sweat in them, and leather doesn’t like that at all. Over time, leather fencing gloves will get really stiff and uncomfortable to wear. If you ever have leather that gets like this – don’t give up on it yet! In order to clean sweat-stiffened leather, do this:
Here are my notes so far on the basics of leather tooling (making impressions into leather). I’m going to be teaching a class at Northwoods Community College, which is an SCA (Society for Creative Anachronism) event next month. Leather Tooling Basics Draw a design on paper. Get your leather piece: vegetable tanned leather only! This
A few months after I started inkle weaving, I started playing with more advanced inkle weaving techniques. I managed to learn a couple of these techniques from piecing together information from the internet – mainly, I learned about two methods. The first was the stripes method of pick-up, which I’m not displaying in this post