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Noir-Azur β Short celtic bracer
Published: 2011-01-19 12:53:21 +0000 UTC; Views: 1395; Favourites: 26; Downloads: 45
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Short bracer with celtic knots.Related content
Comments: 33
Really nice stitching there. Shame it's made out of leather.
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Doesn't seem fair that a cow had to die for it. It was submitted to the pagan group, but it seems to contradict the beliefs of 'And it harm none do as you will'.
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You know our ancestors used leather for their clothes ? As they kill some animals to eat... This is not something bad when you're keeping respect for the animal and what he gave you.
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Yeah, but the animals today aren't respected. They are kept and killed really inhumanely, and they keep the males separately to kill for their skin. Not to mention thousands of acres of land are destroyed to keep them.
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Sadly, I know that... And that's why I'm trying to work leather with all respect it deserve, and to never wast it. That's all I can do... I cannot make all these non-humans monsters disappear...
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Those are absolutely gorgeous. Your taste in design, colour, and pattern is absolutely remarkable, and it is proved in your many stunning pieces.
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Aw.. Thank you so much for these words... Really appreciated..
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I like the stitched edges, but in the future you may want to use lighter weight leather since the thicker lacing may cause problems for the one wearing them. As for tooling, I like the design, but if you want to continue working with detailed lines like this, I recommend making a scratch awl tool. It's what I used on all the tooling work in my gallery. What I made it from is an antler tip (About 5"-6" long) with a steel nail set in the end opposite the antler-tip. The nail is filed down to a very fine, very sharp point. I use this part to scratch the surface of the leather and then I use the antler tip to open and polish the lines. When you do this, you can also accent the linework with ink (I use acrylic ink mostly) or antiquing stain.
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I agree with your advices. For the laces I'm looking for lighter leather, but for now, this one don't injure the arm (I wore it an entire day, and there was no problems at this end 
For the design, I just begin to learn how to use my new tools, so, this design was one of my first try... I use a similar technique as you, but not with the same type of tools (and perhaps I cut too deep...)
Anyway I use acrylic sometimes, but not for this kind of design... I will try next time I think. For now I use some varnish (as here for example).
Thank you so much for these advices, they're much appreciated
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I'm not sure if you can find it where you are, but I've had good luck using deerhide leather for lacing. I get the chromium tanned leather so it's a little stretchier, and it's incredibly soft!
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I have some medieval markets around Paris sometimes, where I can find merchants from all around the world... So, there is all sorts of leathers, laces, and others things I can find here...
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Beautiful work
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Bracers are very nice 
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You're right, I just began to use professionnal tools ('cause before, I used a wood tool made by me... not really cool if you want to know 
Anyway, thanks !
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It's always better than mine
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Very nice designs, clasic celtic symbols.
Though I do have a question about your tooling technique:
I have noticed that you do not stamp down the backgrounded areas inside the knot (also in other artworks). Where I have learned that most artists do because of the natural shading effect it has. So why do you chose not to?
I'm just curious
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Thanks
One of the reasons I don't do that, is because I don't have the tools it needs. (By the way, as I've never learnt in a school or with a professionnal, there is some techniques left I don't know...)
For now, I didn't try what you're talking about, but I will
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I see, Well life is a learning process and I do wish you much growth ^^
As for me, I only got a quick, ten minute testrun of leather crafting (still in the phase of practicing and thinking up something cool I want to make.)
But yeah, i got myself one of those 8 stamp starting sets, and it had a shader in it. If you have the time, there are some examples and tutorials on youtube showing the various effects of different tools. I thought them to be very interesting ^^
of course i'm only suggesting, feel free to pick it up or drop it off as you please.
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I didn't know for videos you just told me about, I will see, thanks
And thanks also for these interesting comments, always nice to read !
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cool, grat job, loved the choice of symbols
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J'aime beaucoup beaucoup =] Super classe et tout et tout.
J't'en demanderai peut-Γͺtre un comme Γ§a un de ces jours ... (quand j'aurai renflouΓ© mon porte-feuille 
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(au lieu de le vider Γ coup de Newrocks, bouh !
Merci beaucoup !
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(je te triple zut ! *fière de ses newrocks* tu verrais à quel point elles ont la classe 
Et pis de rien ^^
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