09-18-2020, 08:42 AM
(This post was last modified: 09-22-2020, 05:53 AM by Jehan Gelria.)
Part 1
When looking for pictures I realized that, in the heat of the moment, I forgot to make them during a considerable amount of stages so please forgive me for that
I never intended to make a walkthrough of my project for that matter
Of course I started with making templates from cardboard. I taped the edges with a few layers of 3m-tape to a) prevent damaging the template when cutting the leather and b) make sure the cuts in the leather where as clean as can be.
The leather itself is vegetable tanned leather dyed white. At first I started with 2 sheets of cowleather (thickness 2,5/3 mm each) but since I desired the breastplate of the spolas and the yoke composed of 3 layers in total (backside of the spolas only 2 layers) it turned out I didn’t have enough leather. Spend a week searching for another equivalent sheet of leather. In the end decided to travel to Belgium and found a sheet more or less the same.
First batch of cut pieces:
Attaching the 2 layers of pteruges (and middlesheet of breastplate) together:
Part 2
Attaching the second (middle) layer of the breastplate. In this stage attached the second layer only to the leftside and bottom (between the 2 layers of pteruges):
Experimenting with pigmentpaint (took me a long time and efforts before I had something that worked btw) and starting with sewing the yoke:
Scales made from phosphor bronze (0,4 mm thickness). First cut out the rough shape with a tin scissor and then filed to size and shape by hand.
Afterwards greased them with furniture wax.
Then onto painting a border which will be glued (with hide glue) beneath the scale sections and above the sewing edges of the different layers of leather.
As you may have noticed I forgot to take pictures of sewing together the 3rd layer of the front and the 2nd layer of the backside
Part 3
I also forgot to take pictures of the remaing part of painting the border... But here you can see the painted border ready and a first start of positioning the scales.
Above that you can see my first attempt (on paper) of a pattern (also on goat leather) I wish to sew there:
And again I forgot to take pictures, this time of sewing the scales and painting the pattern.... These pictures show me in the proces of 1) sewing the border
with pattern and 2) making a start with sewing the edges of the spolas. For that I used a rather thick sheet of lambskin:
During this project I felt something was missing on the rightside so decided to add a scale section there. So again went crazy on the fosforbronze and here you
can see the final phase. I did bend the scales by small pressure to let them each follow the curve of the side when wearing the spolas:
When looking for pictures I realized that, in the heat of the moment, I forgot to make them during a considerable amount of stages so please forgive me for that
I never intended to make a walkthrough of my project for that matter
Of course I started with making templates from cardboard. I taped the edges with a few layers of 3m-tape to a) prevent damaging the template when cutting the leather and b) make sure the cuts in the leather where as clean as can be.
The leather itself is vegetable tanned leather dyed white. At first I started with 2 sheets of cowleather (thickness 2,5/3 mm each) but since I desired the breastplate of the spolas and the yoke composed of 3 layers in total (backside of the spolas only 2 layers) it turned out I didn’t have enough leather. Spend a week searching for another equivalent sheet of leather. In the end decided to travel to Belgium and found a sheet more or less the same.
First batch of cut pieces:
Attaching the 2 layers of pteruges (and middlesheet of breastplate) together:
Part 2
Attaching the second (middle) layer of the breastplate. In this stage attached the second layer only to the leftside and bottom (between the 2 layers of pteruges):
Experimenting with pigmentpaint (took me a long time and efforts before I had something that worked btw) and starting with sewing the yoke:
Scales made from phosphor bronze (0,4 mm thickness). First cut out the rough shape with a tin scissor and then filed to size and shape by hand.
Afterwards greased them with furniture wax.
Then onto painting a border which will be glued (with hide glue) beneath the scale sections and above the sewing edges of the different layers of leather.
As you may have noticed I forgot to take pictures of sewing together the 3rd layer of the front and the 2nd layer of the backside
Part 3
I also forgot to take pictures of the remaing part of painting the border...
But here you can see the painted border ready and a first start of positioning the scales. Above that you can see my first attempt (on paper) of a pattern (also on goat leather) I wish to sew there:
And again I forgot to take pictures, this time of sewing the scales and painting the pattern.... These pictures show me in the proces of 1) sewing the border
with pattern and 2) making a start with sewing the edges of the spolas. For that I used a rather thick sheet of lambskin:
During this project I felt something was missing on the rightside so decided to add a scale section there. So again went crazy on the fosforbronze and here you
can see the final phase. I did bend the scales by small pressure to let them each follow the curve of the side when wearing the spolas:
Johan T.
