leatherworkingreverend
Welcome to the Reverend's Big Blog of Leather. Some years ago I wrote and published a vanity piece on leather work in the first half of the seventeenth century. This blog is my way of avoiding both the production costs and requirement to actually finish a manuscript for a second edition. I’ve expanded the timeframe slightly to include my medieval and Anglo-Saxon leather work as it gives me more opportunity to show off. My approach is to use home made or substitute tools such as butter knives, so you can’t claim that you don’t have the tools necessary to try any of these. Consider this site a tribute to the number of things you can do with the back of a butter knife.
Categories used most frequently by the blogger:
Early Modern Accessories and Personal Items Leather Horn Tudor Shoehorn Late Medieval Robert Mindum Stuart Early Medieval Archery Equipment Big Book of Leather Chapters shoe horn Reproductions Hedeby Quiver Mindum Leather Vessels Modern moulded leather
20 December 2018
If you go back to my earlier posts on making a Hedeby quiver, I commented that I had been able to match all the stitch holes and thread imprints on all parts other than the carrying...
The shoehorn that never was – Jane Ayres, 1595
16 November 2018
It all began with a letter to the society… then an email from a PhD candidate and ended with the 1595 shoe horn evaporating in a cloud of illegibility. Let’s go...
6 June 2018
We went on the Japanese mini submarine tour around Sydney Harbour last week, run by the NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service. The tour included a visit to Fort Denison, in the Fort...
In case anyone’s wondering what I’ve been up to…
3 August 2017
… there’s an account over on the National Leather Collection blog. Filed under: Ancient, Copper/Bronze Age, Early Medieval, Early Modern, Late Medieval, Leather, Leather...