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Archery Paraphenalia
We're both members of a local archery club, Allington
Castle Archers. Sarah joined about 4 years ago with a modern
recurve bow, but Paul has since convinced her to try her hand at
longbow. Of course, the new interest provided Paul with more opportunities
for his leatherwork skills:
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| Quivers |
Bracers |
Custom |
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| Quivers : Click on a picture to see a more detailed version. |
| This standard forward-facing quiver is
3" in diameter and 22" long, made from 2 pieces of heavy waxed leather.
(Paul also made the arrows!) Simple leather straps connect it via
a metal ring to a belt loop. (For alternative fixings, see 'Custom'
section below.) |
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This is Paul's usual quiver; the detail
shows the boar's head taken from the Bradley coat of arms. This
is made from black treated leather that doesn't take well to stamping
or dyeing, so the design is painted on with flexible acrylic paint.
An involved process required 3 coats of white acrylic before the
design was painted! 22" long, 5" diameter at the top with a slight
taper. |
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| This quiver is made to a medieval pattern,
and was made for our friend Geoff Barker at Fleur-de-Lys Designs
to match an existing quiver he had that was wearing out. The design
is the Barker coat of arms, again painted on with acrylic paints
(useful things!). |
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| Bracers
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| The bracer serves two purposes; it keeps clothing
out of the way of the string, and stops damage to the arm should
something go wrong on releasing the string. Beginners are encouraged
to wear a longer bracer (as modelled here by Paul), although a friend
of ours who shoots a compound
bow has insisted on a long bracer ever since his bow exploded
one day and took a chunk out of his arm. |
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When shooting longbow, a short bracer is usually sufficient;
this one has a long piece of elastic that loops around the arm and
round pegs on each side of the bracer. |
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Three long bracers in different leathers: |
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| Custom
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| These two sets of quiver, belt and pouch were custom-made for fellow archery club members. |
| Celtic set: |
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This forward-facing quiver was made of vegetable-tanned
leather, with an additional piece embossed with a celtic design
and sewn around the quiver opening. The leather was dyed before
sewing, and waxed on completion. The detail shows the celtic design
on the accompanying pouch; this was the |
| first time we'd used acrylic paints for
colour and were rather pleased with the result! The closure is a
bone toggle this is very similar to a dark age turn-pouch, though
authentic paints were based on egg-white). |
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| Elvish set: |
| The owner provided us with an elvish font and writing
which she wanted embossed on the quiver. The quiver itself was made
of heavy black waxed leather, and the detail shows the script design,
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which was achieved by tracing the letters,
embossing them and then filling in with metallic silver pen; a coat
of wax was then used to protect the design. The detail of the pouch
shows the design taken from the Lord of the Rings elven brooch - and
yes, it's acrylics again, finished with silver pen. The closure for
the pouch is a haematite bead. |
The finished set. |
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