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Making up these Spatula Mundani for the good Dr. Mission: The first: The second, has tweezer end as best as I could tell from drawing: Tried to blow it up some: These little barnacles are actually quite fun to make!! A few more to come as I get workshop time....
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This almost complete work Was done by Darrel Morris , An Artist who approached me at Escondido Ren Fair last year. Back then he was making naked images of Women and has since switched to pirates. Eye Know Scrimshaw was more popular during the Whaling years..but Eye wonder if it was a practice during GAOP?
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I know it's the wrong way around to have an idea and then try to find info to back it up. But i am gona ask it anyhowe... I do have books with Spanish uniform drawings one of them shows a militia uniform from around 1774 having green piping around the button holes with thoos clover shapes. This made me wandering if theres any evidence for this practise earlyer in the 18th century?? Learning from my enbroiderybook it is clear that the technique of sowing thicker thread on to the curface of clothing was done in combination with other enboidery techniques. But as a stand alone idea I don't know... Then again many officer uniforms have the edges, button holes, buttons an…
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Stumbled over this by accident, didn't know where to put it, so I thought here would be best. It's the best photo I've ever come across of the outfit, doesn't look half bad. http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.curatedobject.us/.a/6a00e54f9f8f8c88340147e15471f0970b-800wi&imgrefurl=http://www.curatedobject.us/the_curated_object_/2011/01/exhibitions-baton-rouge-cut-costume-and-the-cinema-the-louisiana-art-science-museum-the-curated-obje.html&usg=__GmQoVkHXuU9MdvEYrMzwE2_1rAE=&h=1197&w=800&sz=93&hl=en&start=33&zoom=1&itbs=1&tbnid=q-x7HGmnF5avwM:&tbnh=150&tbnw=100&prev=/images%3Fq%3D18th%2Bcentury%2Blouisiana%2Ba…
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I have a white and cream waistcoat that is in desperate need of repair. The buttons are almost all gone and the trim I used is fraying badly. I almost tossed it out a few days ago but decided to hold on to it. Looking for someone to fix it up for trade. I do a lot of pirate jewelry and replica coins and hat pins. Any takers?
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major booty of awesome cashmere winter coats....for mega cheap!!! wonder if anyone has done/ attempted this before... i gather that they will be quite a bit bulkier than regular stays.... but i see tremendous advantage as far as sewing trim around...as in, i plan on just whip/ button hole stitching around the tabs for finishing.... and tis pure glory to sew thru wool/ cashmere... using silk thread of course!!! TIA for all comments/suggestions/advice
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So after much deliberation and study I've bound me own logbooks. I figured I'd post the pic and info here. The Books are 11"x 17", hand bound in leather with wheat paste and linen thread. Enjoy!
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On a lot of drawings of officers from the beginning of the 18th century and on, I see Epaulets on the right shoulder. Is there anyone wo can point me to a pattern and/or construction illustrations, or ideas of these??
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just finished a new wesket,waistcoat,long vest and ready to start another for Searles raid but wasn't thinking ahead enough now i'm having a hard time finding a good 16/17th century shank buttons,in the USA .like an acorn shape or anything close .Oh yes and 28 per vest =60 buttons.
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So im learning how to leather work. Going to be making belts,sheaths,bracelets, and a bunch of other things. I was wondering if there are tutorials or what tools are good to be starting with. Tools i have - Rubber mallet Paint Scraper sharpened to do tracing Etching Knife Beveler Trying to go the cheap route just to start before i sell any thing.
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The Museum of Leathercraft
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check out lubeads.com great prices
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I make strands o' traders beads & hair/bandana dangles (much like what Cap'n Sparrow wore). It started simply as a way ta add a touch o' color to me garb, but has thus become a hypnotic way ta spend the evening (with a glass o' rum o' course). I have a few examples to share (others have been traded off, or are locked in me garb trunk). Opinions greatly appreciated. This is the five I had on hand today (showin' a mate who wants a strand or three) Closer up on the best three: That be a Cowry shell at the end, Blue Agate, Hematite discs, and carved bone tubes, all on hemp cord. Another Cowry, Glass beads, Tigers Eye, and Hematite spheres, on hemp. Again with the…
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Spent the day yesterday trawling through the Victoria and Albert Museum online collection database and heres a few links to late 17th / early 18th century clothing that I thought might be of interest. http://collections.v...t-and-breeches/ http://collections.v...ding-suit-coat/ http://collections.v...ormal-ensemble/ http://collections.v...ke-gown-wentke/ http://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O13928/dress-coat/ http://collections.v...8782/waistcoat/ http://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O13810/mantua/ http://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O13929/dress-suit/ http://collections.v...3541/waistcoat/
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have pillaged many wool coats from good will.... and i am wondering and perusing old paintings ( in books) to see if i can get an idea what one would see--- but i know since we are pirates we can have a mix of rich and then humble blankets... i know from reading the calamitous 14th century, that blankets and pillows and such things were found many times in property lists and wills.. they existed.... but not always spoken in great detail unless it was a wealthy perrson.... anyone cite a few source?? anecdotes from other reading???
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pic of the short jacket i made using a ladies wool sweater :)
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anyone ever use a micro torch like the one in the pic ?? it takes a butane cylinder, and nox (nitrous oxide ??)... i inherited this gem and have had it for about 27 years... i played with it back then and never was able to get the flame worth a crap to do anything but run out of gas...lack of knowing what the heck iwas doing probably played a huge part in this... but now i have found approximately 1,498 uses for it and wanna use it... i know how to use an oxy-acetalene torch, but have no idea how to adjust the flame on this set up porperly... google search was in vain... any help is appreciated :)
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I got a gift card to Tandy leather as an early Christmas present and will be attempting my first leather scabbard. Any one have suggestions on any how to guides or reference materials?
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I would like to have some one do some (a lot) 1700 emboidery in the future. She now a day's does verry good and fine traditional Roemeniën things, so i asked here if se could also do something like this: to be honest it scared here of a bit, and she wanted to know more about the techique. So I wondered what more is there to say and know about this style of embroidery..? So are there (online) explinations about how to approache this kind of work and what technigues to use?? Thanks!
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A picture of the whole kit laid out Interpretive style ( iknow the quality isn't great but the close ups are better) Close up of the extra cloaths in the pack, cut or cloath hose, work frock, spare pair of woolen breeches, and thrum cap and blue linen neckcloth Then a closeup of the afore-picture parcels, laid out on display Closer shot of the bowl / The Far side of the hammock which includes my working gear Close up of my rigging belt( Made by Hawkyns) my knife and marling nail, they are laid out on a proclamation for the gathering up of wandering sailors and sea-faring men Close ups of my other working tools, sailmakers palm, fid, twines, needles, & s…
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So, I don't really know where to start. I used to really really really like sea chests...or boxes on boats or whatever. I even built a few to haul all my dunnage around in for living history events etc. Then all of sudden I thought about the sporadiac and on again off again career of a merchant seaman of the late 17th century. I soon realized that lugging around a sea chest was just too damn cumbersome. Besides dragging this chest all around whatever town you happened to be in, New York, Charles Towne, Bridgetown you still had to get it to the orlop or foc'sle deck of the next ship you got a job with. So I experimented with taking what I kept in my sea chest and packing …
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found a source for 18 oz. canvas, 60" wide for $9.00/ yard... seems like a pretty good deal to me.... what i was thinking of making with it is a new and larger dining fly...since most of them are usually using 10 0r 12 oz. canvas, i am thinking that a fly with this weight material would be heavy and troublesome.... any one with some experience chime in here ??
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Just a nice old "Old Hickory" knife I rescued. Good 1095 carbon steel, will last for lifetimes! Fixed the point, reshaped the handle a bit, refinished the hardwood handle with an old fashioned, hand rubbed, linseed oil finish, and gave the blade a fresh edge. I also took some scrap leather and stitched up a simple sheath; incorporated three brass staples to protect the stitching, instead of rivets. It's not black, but very dark brown: oil's still fresh on it in this pic. If there's any thing to brag about here, it's that I didn't have many tools at hand. Didn't even have a hammer handy. Made the holes for the stitching with a pick and a 10# dumbbell. …
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over the winter, this is what i hope to accomplish.... wanna do some earlier garb ( 1660's) , need to make a few chairs, an extra table, maybe a few stools, and something like a side table... need to get some tent canvas, make a sod cloth for the wedge tent ( sucks in a cold wind !! ) make a few bags for cooking stuff...make a few more sea bags to hide stuff in...make covers for stuff like the water container set up the diamond shelter we just got, make a pole or two, and learn how to set it up correctly....may try making my own tent stakes, bought 10 of them for $2 each...but i need alot more !! gotta redo my tent ropes, the toggles i made slip too much ( too b…
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I'm currently reading a book entitled "Mayflower Bastard" by David Lindsay and read mention of a type of sea captains coat called a Dreadnought Jacket. I wondered what it looks like. It may have connections to the Puritans and Pilgrims in the colonies of the early to mid 1600's. Any ideas?
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