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I'm very new to leather work, these being my 2nd, 3rd and 4th attempts at the art.
The first bag answers the never asked question: "Where do Carharts go to die?" The body of this pouch is made from the leg of an old pair of well-used Carharts. I made the flap with a double layer of pillow-ticking fringe. This roughly follows Southern Mountain practices cloth-bodied bags with leather flaps and straps for all sorts of materials.
The big leather bag was a gift from a friend that needed a strap. I am not the leather worker my friend is
and I'd never be able to duplicate the tight stitching he used, nor would I be able to match the leather color so I decided that a simple web strap would work. I did wrap the ends of the strap in a very close matching leather to dress them up a bit. I realize that typically game bags have rings for the strap attachment but I see this German-ish pouch serving with my Jaeger rifle and/or my SXS shotgun, I may even make a net bag for it.
The last pouch is a very early style of pouch made with a single piece of leather. The flap is actually the edge of the hide. It was made by folding the leather and stitching up the side and bottom. I did not sew the pouch inside out and turn it, but I did add a welt to the two sewn sides and added a bit of reinforcement at the top edges of the pouch by whip stitching. Unlined and un-decorated. It had a greater depth than the width of an early pouch as well as a simple square shape. This is similar to the style pouch the noted reenactor Mark Baker usually carries.
The big leather bag was a gift from a friend that needed a strap. I am not the leather worker my friend is
and I'd never be able to duplicate the tight stitching he used, nor would I be able to match the leather color so I decided that a simple web strap would work. I did wrap the ends of the strap in a very close matching leather to dress them up a bit. I realize that typically game bags have rings for the strap attachment but I see this German-ish pouch serving with my Jaeger rifle and/or my SXS shotgun, I may even make a net bag for it.
The last pouch is a very early style of pouch made with a single piece of leather. The flap is actually the edge of the hide. It was made by folding the leather and stitching up the side and bottom. I did not sew the pouch inside out and turn it, but I did add a welt to the two sewn sides and added a bit of reinforcement at the top edges of the pouch by whip stitching. Unlined and un-decorated. It had a greater depth than the width of an early pouch as well as a simple square shape. This is similar to the style pouch the noted reenactor Mark Baker usually carries.
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