Of shoes

[dream_wind]

Well, in a bit over 2 weeks the Hordweard project gets judged. AAAHHHH. I'm very nearly finished, but there's going to be a massive effort over the next couple of weeks to get everything done including the documentation. It's probably going to resemble an Honours thesis, but with jokes. And many many pictures of cats

Comments

[virginiadear]

Are you going to be sewing your shoes, or thonging your shoes?
And are you punching holes in your felt mock-ups? Personal preference or personal method of working, I suppose, but I generally just stitch my felt mock-ups, since I mainly use them to check for fit.

Regarding brain versus oil-tanning, they're actually not the same process

[dream_wind]

Over the past month, I have been reading *a lot* about various methods of tanning and tawing leather, to the point where I could probably have a go at it if I wasn't worried about the smell. And the *ick* of massaging brain into leather

[virginiadear]

I'm not saying they're not similar or even very closely similar: I'm only saying they're not the same and if scientific accuracy counts for anything (and with me it does), then the two methods ought not be equated.

I'd had some vague ambitions to try my hand at tanning, but there is that issue of smell, for one thing, and pit/oak tanning requires both a pit and time and I doubt my neighbors would be so tolerant, if not forgiving, for so long: someone would be bound to complain in a densely-built and densely-populated urban environment like mine.

I'm hoping you'll share images of all the items in this project once they're all completed. :-)

[dream_wind]

My neighbours complained when I smoked fish once. I don't know what they'd think if I started smoking skins and massaging them with brains... and I don't have enough yard to dig a big enough pit to try oak tanning.