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Big fella into buckskin/Smoking/Lots of pics./Items made
BowEd:
A deer like this makes for a good pants with it's length and thickness.Lots of times in the past I always struggled getting a deer hide big or long enough for pants pipe length with a 35" inseam.Always having to put an addition onto the lower half.Now to get another deer hide the exact length and thickness again is a challenge.
Why I never used elk was a matter of wrong location living/time/and money but I think do make the best durable leather for pants.A bit hot in the summer but nicer in the cooler and colder months.I've never actually done an elk but did do couple of hair on 2 year old buffalo robes.
That's partially why I never did mind shooting these 2 year old does though.They make great clothes overall and taste really good.
Lots of projects out of a persons' effort here.My old man used to say to me too when I was young you'll get what you put into it son and that holds true here too.
The list of things to make is endless and too numerous to actually show including moccasins,bags,quivers etc.Here's a few anyway.
Pants
polished antler buttons
beadwork on lower cuff of pants
Shirt front
Shirt back with quill wrapped fringe
Coat/7 hides actually into this coat
brain tanned buffalo mounty style cap with rosette on front/no. 10 seed beads.Harness leather viser whip stitch beaded on edge.
Full outfit on
Dress for Robin
You might get a kick out of this.A while back a friend came by that had a brain tanned dress that she stored in a very musty basement too long.There was green mold onto this.She asked me how to get rid of it.I really did'nt want to scrape it all off.So I thought mold is a live oraganizm.Smoke kills things.I'll see if that works.Here's the solution I come up with.
It worked.
lebhuntfish:
That's cool Ed! Way to be innovative with the dress. I've had a project of a pair of moccasin boots that I've messed with for a while. Kinda of a rainy day/back burner project. I found it takes a lot more leather and time than one imagines.
Patrick
BowEd:
Working with leather is fun to me.You gotta hand it to them before electricity etc. sewing with sinew by hand.Long process.I've never read how they did sew with sinew back then completely.I think a sharp bone point making a hole through the leather then one end of sinew is left with a stiif tip and put through the hole.The rest of the sinew is kept moist to pull tight and shrink and seal things up good.One stitch at a time.Maybe a needle out of bone too.I think a type of vegetable or grass thread was used at times too.
I made a pillow once out of brain tan with real sinew that way on the seams.Stuffed it with buffalo hair.The seams are amazingly tough with sinew.
Just imagine all of the seams on a tipi,the clothes,and different accoutraments.No wonder many turned out to be craftistic artists with all of that practice sewing.Boggles my mind the amount of time and work.
lebhuntfish:
Ed, now that you mentioned it it kinda boggles my mind as well.
Patrick
bubby:
I wonder how many replys this would of got if the title was,"big fella into leather" 😜😂
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