Category: leathercraft
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The Birka Wallet is a ‘small’ storage bag recovered from a bog and dated to around 900 AD. Small extant fragment were excavated, and much of the published discussion of the purse is based on artistic interpolation and conjecture. The confirmed facts are it had multiple pockets, decorative woven strips, and was made from leather.…
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Finally clearing the work bench to work on the girdle purses. Starting with the simple efficient design that I’ll be referring to as the Square Body design. It’s a simple rectangle that 8.25 inches by 18ish inches. Three sides are straight and one narrow end can be left as the natural edge of the hide.…
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Because I needed a larger and more practical pouch I went looking for a pattern for what I knew as a “Kidney Pouch”. More accurately termed a girdle purse. For modern life I need it to fit a cell phone, an battery bank, car keys, wallet, field notebook, writing implements, and have room for more…