Class projects: more simple armor and a couple complex projects

[labricoleuse]

So, i think i've mentioned before that my students do a simple and a complex armor project in the last part of the semester. These are sort of rough definitions, usually the simple projects are just smaller in scale or less complicated in materials used. I posted a while back about a few of the simple projects, and today i have a few more of those

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[ladycelia]

When you say 'hardened leather', what exactly does that mean? Is it something added to the leather that makes it stiffer?

good question!

[labricoleuse]

It's a technique you can use with vegetable-tanned leather, where you saturate it in hot water and stretch and mold it over a base. When the leather cools and dries, it hardens into the shape you've forced it into. Depending on what you are molding it over, you can tack it down, or bind it with muslin strips, or really anything that will hold it in place while it dries/cools.

Re: good question!

[ladycelia]

Thanks for the response. I always learn something new from your posts.