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    A couple of leatherwork questions.

    in Crafting Kit

    Posted · Edited by Korisios

    I am planning some leatherwork projects at the moment and wander about a view things:

    1a. In drawings that I see (http://www.reenactor.ru/ARH/PDF/Eq_Mil_Petard_1.pdf), the edges of belts and baldrics appear to have some sort of lining or edging sown to it, does anyone have an idea what such a lining is made of?

    1b. To me it would be also logical to have some kind of textile on the back- or inside of belts and baldrics, especially for the higher ranked soldiers and the rich civilians, to keep the rough backside and the edges of the leather from wasting the fabric of their clothing... I do have a modern drawing of a Spanish 1700 soldier that even does have some ruffled fabric showing from behind his baldric, I like this idea, but would love to see some period drawings of it before I put in the effort of copying this...

    2. What period methods are there to decorate leather (that I can do myself)? I would like to put an intricate Spanish coat of arms emblem on my bag, and wander if it would be period, to just paint this emblem on there...?

    3. Until now I assumed that riveting pieces leather together, back then would be the luxurious way of making things, compared to sowing, but when I think of it the sowing would take more time. Any thoughts of this?

    My new/first cocked hat

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    Posted

    I loved the cockade that you made and used to ornament the hat. Very nice!

    Thanks Jib.

    The cockade is the most simple one you can have actually just a square piece off cloth, I only doubled it, stitched it all around and carefully pleaded it in the middle, to make it fit under the cord neatly.

    The photos and props are also fantastic!

    It's by far not all authentic or period, but I think it gifs a good feel of where I am heading at...

    Spanish Captain drawing

    in Captain Twill

    Posted

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    This drawing bothers me for a long time now. "it" (the caption) says 1700 Spanish Captain. To me it looks more something like 1650 ish...

    Could it be that someone put a wrong date on this picture somewhere? Or where Spaniard really so old fasioned back then???

    I mean all other drawings and paintings of Spanish soldiers from 1700/1720 I have seen do show more modern clothing...

    Shirt question.

    in Crafting Kit

    Posted

    Thanks for the prompt response, so I might wanna go for piecing then, or maybe replace the entire collar since the shirt is getting mighty long and I easely could lose some of that lenght... Hm extra work.... :huh: ...

    Shirt question.

    in Crafting Kit

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    I am making an (early) 18 century shirt at the moment, and now somehow I ended up with a collar that is actually a bit to small I am afraid I would not be able to breath ones I attache and close the buttons... :(:huh: .

    Now I am wandering if there's another period way to close the collar that gifs me a little more space (to breath).

    Would it be an idea to use two buttons like the way you do the cuffs with two buttons??

    Or would simply tying the collar shut with a small ribbon attached or run through to the collar be period also??

    So, in short: HELP!!! :wacko::blink::o

    My new/first cocked hat

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    Posted

    Where did you get you silver lace from?

    Thanks guys for the compliments.

    The Lace, the gold cord the bullion tape and the button came from the shop "Passementerie, Baars & van de Kerkhof" here in Utrecht, one of the bigger city's here in the center of the Netherlands 90 to 120 minutes by train from where I live. This shop is completely dedicated to bands, ribbons, lace buttons, cords, feathers and the like... Run by a couple that seams to be very knowledgeable about what they sell. Unfortunately, they appear to not have website nor an e-mail address... )-;

    The silver lace I used is a little wider then shown on the hat, because for aesthetic reasons we decided not to use the complete wide of it.

    The actual edge of the rim is bordered by a separate silver cord that comes already attached to a ribbon, especially meant for the purpose of edging things...

    If you want I can make a picture of all the things separate.

    My new/first cocked hat

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    Posted

    Together with a friend of mine (http://www.hoedopmaat.nl/home.html) who makes felt hats (the 20th century fashionable kind) I made this early 18th century Spanish Officers Cocked hat.

    We started out with a soft felt blank and in several runs of priming and stiffening (appreteren) we cave de bowl it's shape and stiffened the rim making it ready for the actual bending. I choose a more flattened bowl (sugerloaf) and already before cocking the rim, the design looked Spanish to me.

    The rim is trimmed with silver lace, the cords are gold and the band around the bowl is (I think) what you people would call bullion tape.

    Making use of Ivan Henrys gallery and some internet searches I based my hat more or less on the drawing of the: "Chapeaux d'officiers d'apres un almanch de 1705, la prise de Barcelone." and some other drawings and foto's I found on the internet.

    It might be a bit to fancy for most of you pirates, but I think it suits an officer quite nicely...

    I must say I am very pleased with it...

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    and just for the fun of it, I include one more photo of my stuff here:

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    How to "cock" a hat.

    in Crafting Kit

    Posted

    The earlist documentation that I can find is from the Revolutionary War (Sketchbook 76). so it's about 50 years outta date, it's one of those "It could have been done earlier, but I'm not 100%sure..." I do it because it finishes up the hat nicely.....

    Thanks Patrick, Indeed it's a nice finishing touch,.. And I most likely ad one on my Cocked hat to...

    Doing internet researche on cockades I found this reproduction where they added a simmilar liner, it only states 18 century so it's no answer to my question but just another nice example: http://www.ebay.com/itm/REPRODUCTION-18TH-CENTURY-OFFICER-TRICORN-GOLD-BRAID-/190458073056#ht_1586wt_905

    How to "cock" a hat.

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    Posted

    If you wanna get rrealy fancy, you can also line the hat....

    Start with a strip of cloth the same length as the inside of the hat, and about 3 1/2" tall...

    sew it into a tube, and then sew in a casing around the top edge....leaving a small opening in the casing ......

    run a lingth of cord through the casing...

    then turning the other edge, sew it into the hat.... (the stitches don't have to go all the way through the felt, just enought to hold the lining in place)

    The opening for the cord should go to the back of the hat....

    The cord slightly gathers the top edge of the lining so it fits inside the hat.

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    You can just see one end of the knotted cord at the back of the hat in the picture

    (ignore the sweat stains.... this one is over three years old......)

    Are there (pictures of) period examples of this kind of lining??

    How to "cock" a hat.

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    Posted · Edited by Korisios

    I am about to make a 1710/1720 Spanish officers Cocked hat next week. The color will be a dark charcoal gray with an bit of purple/bleu (depends on the light) in it.

    Looking around for models I noticed that most chocked hats i see here are just with all three sides folded all the way up in the same way. Except for one of Jack Roberts hats and the leather Sparrow hat on this thread.

    These have their back part more like it's rolled up towards the top. Reading through the Gentlemen of fortune site they say, and I quote: "hats for 1685 and 1687 are just slightly turned up in the front and kind of "rolled" up in the back." So I am wandering is everybody doing pirates from 1687 onwards till later? Is there evidence for the rolled up back past 1687? And is there difference in English cocked hats and let's say French and or Spanish ones?

    Spanish Cannon

    in Captain Twill

    Posted

    Amazing!, I also like the wood work especialy the wheels, I do some small woodwork my self, and i could do the carriage but technicaly the wheels would scare me of of such a project.

    Are you going to paint the wood! Maybe weather it a bit? Ore just rub the whole thing with some kind of oil??

    Chinese silk?

    in Crafting Kit

    Posted

    My wife is going to Beijing in november. We know there's a very nice silk factory where we have been before.

    See wants to visit that place again and is willing to buy some cloth for me there,

    Now I am wandering what pattern see would have to look for, for authentic early 18 century silk that I can make the inner side of a luxurius frock coat or outerside of a waistcoat from?? Or off course other silk clothings..??

    Reptile leather in the 17th and 18th century?

    in Captain Twill

    Posted

    I thinks exotic stuff would have been very much in demand and to the liking of the people of the time. Taken the fact that they also used turtle shells for cunpouder flasks and ivory for making loods of other things... Exotic woods for furniture and stuff. I would say using exotic animal skins would be in the line of these things... Never the less other than the pouderflask I would not have direct evidence...dry.gif

    Dutch army museum Delft

    in Armory

    Posted

    I visited the Dutch Army museum in Delft here.

    They do also have an enormous collection of flintlock gun's.

    It appears that the Dutchys back then made a lot of gun's that where famouse all over Europe..

    So I took a whole bunch of pictures to show here.

    This is the first batch ...

    There's more to come. And I do hope I don't overload the serverspace of this forum here ;):P ...

    If so please let me know and I stop uloading, or start downscaling the pics first.

    Any howe Cheers!

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