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Hi, this is Eric Sterns with Expert Village. We're covering some basic leather work today.
We're looking at the making of a traditional style knife sheath, and that's what we're
going to be doing. It's a knife sheath that is fairly old in its design, I'd say probably
about five or six hundred years old. The construction, the material, is going to be rawhide. We're
actually going to use lace that is cut from the same rawhide, so we'll be sewing it together
with itself, with its own material. That makes it, once it dries, very strong, very tight,
sturdy, and difficult to damage really in any shape or form. Like I say, the design
itself is several hundred years old, and it's quite simple to make, so you should enjoy
it. In addition, you can do some other things. There are other types of leather work and
bead work that are open to you if you should be interested. These are some bags and some
bundles, this gives you, for example, an idea of how things might be further decorated and
embellished. Different things that can be made to wear around the neck, to hold small
items, etc. But for today, we're going to do the knife sheath, which can be actually
decorated in a number of ways, depending on what you're interested in or what is appealing
to you. They can be done with the bead work scene, it could also be done with, there is
traditional ways of decorating with actually brass and/or silver tacks that are inserted
and placed in the rawhide that are actually quite nice, various things that can be done.