Outside Resource Pattern Links
Ok, so truth be told, I'm placing these here for myself as much as anyone looking for my documentation sources. Hopefully, they will be of some assistance on your search…
Read MorePast Projects & Research
Turkish/Mongolian Flat Quiver
Original images of this piece are available on the Metropolitan Museum of Art's website. For this pattern, I blew up the original source work and stitched it together inside of…
Read MoreMaking a Barrel Cooler
Published in The Phoenix, 7/2012 During the hot summer months, thoughts of the great war to the north come quickly to the minds of some. To others, it leaves great…
Read MorePVC Core Rapier Sheaths
Published in The Phoenix, 9/2012 We’ve all undergone bad weather and rough seas in our lives. This kind of thing can spoil not only your mood at times, but it’s…
Read MoreOffline Resources (lovingly known as books)
Ok, so truth be told, I'm placing these here for myself as much as anyone looking for my documentation sources. I think if I start to archive my resources here,…
Read MoreOnline Resources
Ok, so truth be told, I'm placing these here for myself as much as anyone looking for my documentation sources. I think if I start to archive my resources here,…
Read MoreGeneral Research Notes
During the course of the research that I'm conducting, I've come across several different terms and expressions within original source text(s) that I've had to look up. As times change,…
Read MoreDying Leather Blue
The Secretes of the Reverende Maister Alexis of Piemount1 contains a formula for dying leather a very blue color using an elderberry mixture. Though an alternate translation2 is available, my…
Read MoreDying Leather Red
The Secretes of the Reverende Maister Alexis of Piemount1 contains a formula for dying leather a scarlet red color using a mixture of crab shell ashes, madder and ochre. Though…
Read MoreTurning Leather Black
Original Treatises on the Arts of Painting1 contains a formula for creating black ink that I found very interesting and is relevant to the creation of the formula that I…
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