Protege belt

This project was done before SCA War Practice (Kingdom of Æthelmearc). A Protege belt for Baron Ronan O’Gobhann commissioned by Baroness Ekaterina Volkova. Dyed leather belt. Tooked and painted design. Construction, tooling, and painting was done by me. The hardware was provided for the project by Ekat.

Heraldic belt

This was a project I wanted to work on for a while and was a long overdue second payment for some seamstress work. It is a heraldic belt for Baroness Miriel du Lac (SCA). The belt is tooled and painted leather (the main belt is dyed black). The hardware is from Billy and Charile's. White is always a difficult color to work with (at least for me), and I hate to fall back on the "pictures don't do it justice" defense, but in this case the photos do fall a bit short. The shells and pearls are shaded in gray and highlighted with mother of pearl white. It is a rather striking effect in person. I was not too certain about the black dye for the belt but took a chance. I now wish I had gone for blue. Overall I am pretty happy and I think Miriel enjoyed the belt as well.

Rose belt completed...and a bit of confusion cleared up...

Finished the belt with the tooled tip. There was a bit of confusion on the belt and the number of roses. I only had time to do three on the tip. A few folks thought the roses covered the entire belt. Sorry for any confusion on that. Sadly the belt needed to be done by Pennsic and three roses (which matches the persons heraldry) is all I could muster time for. 

Still I was very happy with the final result. 

A new project ends my posting dry spell...

Always with the long delays between updates. I really need to get better with that. So for today here is the start of a new project. Sorry for the bad photo I was moving quickly to the next step and wanted to capture an in progress shot. This going to be a belt with a tooled heraldic tip.

A long overdue project...

Completing this project was long overdue. A 2" wide leather belt with simple tooling on the length of the belt and a tooled and painted belt tip. The requester plans to add his own belt buckle and other hardware.

Catching up on projects...

Since I am on vacation this week I took some time to get caught up on projects that are long overdue. Completed so far are these two C-belts (used to hold up leg armor) for Duke Sir Maynard and Sir Otto. A third is drying and after assembly will go to Lord Wolfgang. Otto's and Wolfgang's are front pointed (meaning the armor is attached more towards the front) and Maynard's is side pointed. How you point them is based on preference and your style of leg armor. These can also be attached to a shoulder harness for people with no waist (like myself). They are really super comfy to wear. I can't take credit for the original pattern but I have made (and continue to make) some design modifications as I experiment with them.

Equerry belt

An equerry belt. Tooled and painted leather. Buckle and tip was provided to me for the project.

Tooled sword frog

Tooled sword frog.