Anyone care to share? - PATTERNS

RollingThunder · January 14, 2009, 06:25:44 PM

OK. So I thought of a nifty little idea. When I first started out, I looked all over the place for patterns that I didn't have to buy in order to use them, and couldn't find a darned thing. The reason I was looking for free, was because I didn't know if I would like this here leather-workin' thang.

Anyway, I decided I've enjoyed working in leather, and even enjoyed Will Ghormley's pattern packs that I have bought.

However, in the off-chance that there are other fellas out there like me, who would like to get their feet wet, I thought I would post some simple patterns that I have made. Starting off with a set of slobber straps. Nothing fancy, and perdy easy.

Anyone want to add something to the thread, feel free.

For this slobber strap, the size is 9 x 2.25 inches, so after you print it, double check that your printer didn't "fit it to the page size" and enlarge or shrink it at all.

The instructions are as attached.

Mogorilla · January 14, 2009, 08:54:50 PM

Here are a few items I have made, one NA one CW
A quiver pattern and final product

Civil War Wallet pattern and finished

RollingThunder · January 14, 2009, 09:17:05 PM

Very cool, Mogorilla! Love the "shank bones from dinner one night!"

Now that truly IS a "found object" lol.

Great stuff!

JD Alan · January 15, 2009, 08:16:57 AM

Since I've already made it pretty plain that I am an ignorant fella when it comes to this stuff, what the heck is a slobber strap?

Mogorilla · January 15, 2009, 10:36:34 AM

you wear it while Looking at the Pictures of some of these guys stuff like Chuck Burrows.

R.T. Rangebum · January 15, 2009, 10:59:09 AM

A slobber strap is a piece of horse equipment used on the bit to attach a mecate. A mecate is a long rope made of various matterials, usually horse hair, that is used as both a set of reins and a lead rope.

RTR

knucklehead · January 15, 2009, 11:19:42 AM

JD your not the only one wondering what a slober strap was.

I thought it was something you wore while window shopping at the local gun store.

RollingThunder · January 15, 2009, 12:51:37 PM

Here's a pic of slobber straps.

And here's button-on version.

And here's how they work with an O-ring bit.

Hope that helps.

RollingThunder · February 10, 2009, 10:41:49 PM

From Chuck Burrows on a different thread, and added here.

Botas de alas = winged boots as Mo stated

Worn over boots - yes here's two pics and Charlie Russell painted then as well...

Bill Cody - front left is wearing some crude ones over boots and buckskin britches

A Californio circa 1870- wearing them over his boots and under his opened calzoneras - the Spanish/Mex britches that button up the side seam

They started in the SW but moved north - as Mo noted the Red River Metis (Canadian mixed bloods) wore them early in the 19th Century, and again Charlie Russell painted them frequently on Metis and others..

Some patterns......Some like the Remington ones are sewn up tubes

Some fancy originals of bucskin - the pattern was pressed into the leather using a large heated plate with the pattern "engraved" into it..........