Showing posts with label pig skin. Show all posts
Showing posts with label pig skin. Show all posts

Saturday, June 10, 2017

More Powder Horn Straps

Powder horn straps, woven by Kris Polizzi, mix of leather tabs and cords; cowhide, calfhide, barktan deer, pig skin, braintan deer, goat leather cord.




Friday, January 29, 2016

#88

Cowhide and pigskin pouch with fabric lining, brass button & buckle; fringe added by request.  Folk art designs incised on leather flap.

 






Friday, July 10, 2015

#73 - Open-top pouch with horn by Ron Hess

This is an open-top pouch made with tin-clothed antique ticking fabric and vegetable-tanned pigskin.  The inside is lined with brown fustian and has a small hanging inside pocket, and a copper button.  The strap is made from cowhide and has a brass harness buckle.  The powder horn was made by Ron Hess.  The base was turned from ash, and it has a turned antler spout and horn collar.  Rounding out the set is a repurposed antique table knife in a center-seam sheath, a brass powder measure and vent pick.






 

 

Friday, May 22, 2015

Monday, July 28, 2014

Calf-hair pouch #1

This pouch is made from cowhide with pigskin bindings and a hair-on calfskin flap.  The strap is made from hemp.

 




Sunday, June 29, 2014

Pigskin & ticking pouch with original horn

The flap and back of this pouch are made from pigskin.  The front is made from pillow ticking that has been tin-clothed.  The strap was made by Kris Polizzi.  The original horn has a rosette carved into the base plug.  An antique table knife has been re-purposed as a patch knife and there is a 45 grain cane measure.  The flap is decorated with the image of a moon and owl.


 







Thursday, May 15, 2014

Pouch with Mark Ewing banded horn

This bag/horn set is a collaboration between myself and horner Mark Ewing.  The pouch is made from cowhide and pigskin and has fringed welts and a hemp lined flap.  The strap was made by Kris Polizzi and adjusts with a steel buckle forged by William Bisher of Black Turtle Forge.  The banded Carolina powder horn has a black walnut plug and an applied antler tip.












Thursday, January 30, 2014

Barktan Pouch #3

This pouch was made for a member of my local black powder shooting club.  It is bark-tanned deer hide with a pigskin welt and homespun lining.  The strap was made by Kris Polizzi (https://www.facebook.com/pages/Kris-Polizzi-Custom-Weaving/206619746042859), and it has a brass buckle for adjustment.