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BowEd:
Finished up on this shirt applying the beadwork.No.8 pony beads used.Leather is white tailed deer.
Front


Back


My beadwork represents the 4 winds in colors and design.Colors are pony trader blues,greasy yellows,cranberrys,and whites.
Type stitching used is the siouw lazy stitch.Not totally stellar work here but enough to satisfy myself.
Doing this with size 11 to 13 seed beads can give a much better overall look to it.

Pat B:
Nice work, Ed. How many hides did you use? What do you use for a pattern? I have a couple of hides I'd like to do the same with.

BowEd:
Normally a shirt like that can be made out of 2 large white tailed deer.They would have to be age wise in the range of at least 4 year old deer to do it with 2 hides.Top third of hide are the sleeves utilizing the neck and front legs.The bottom 2/3rds of the hides are the front and back of shirt.
 I used 4 hides on this one using the very best parts of each hide.Simulating the front legs under the arm and back legs along the bottom of the shirt.Spare peices I use for possible bags,quivers,and the like.
Patterns for these are not difficult.In short take a large plastic trash bag.Cut a hole in the center for your head and cut a hole each for each arm.Slip it on and see how it fits.You can modify how large your head hole can be and where your seam will run for your arm holes.
I transform the shape of body and sleeves onto large pieces of card board and trace the shape onto the leather.
Save all parts for fringe etc.

gutpile:
badass Ed..looks incredible...gut

Stoker:
That turned out great.
Thanks Leroy

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