Freki

One of my best belt bags so far...

The patterns are own designs inspired by Viking age art styles

I finally finished a harness for my wolfdog Skadi - I started with it already 3 years ago, but due to the lack of time and a lot of other projects it took me while to get it ready for the use...

I am not able to tell exactly, but definitely "six" is "seks", "øyne" means "eyes" in norwegian - so Hjalmar Seksøyne would be the correct spelling from my point of view.

You actually described it how it works exactly, CitizenKate. But I have to add that there's no such an "educational" effect included like in the case of chain collars. So the collar stops closing at a point before getting to tight, but tight enough to hold on the dogs neck, not able to slip over the head. This type of collar enables you to very fast put it on and off... Thanks for the compliment to my dogs - I will pass it on to them

Really not a special process I think - dyeing with ROC leather-dye and afterwards fiebing's medium brown antique finish. Mainly using old socks and smal paintbrushes for the dyeing.

Have you been thrown off for functional or for optic reasons? Just curious...

Here is my collection of viking and celtic patterns. I even got some more stuff, but I tried to pick out the more important images. So I also did not include paintings and other related things. Especially in the celtic collection may be a lot of crap, also some tattoo-stuff, I didn't have the time to look through it to carefully - simply delete what you don't need LINKS REMOVED BECAUSE OF REPORTED MALWARE.

This piece is far from being perfect, but if you bear in mind that this was my very first sewing-work ever, I guess it is acceptable. I like this kind of collars better than the ones with buckles. There's also a bit botching with the dye on the inside, but it's the inside, right?! The pattern was drawn freehand and then tooled. The runes mean Isa, which is the name of my Saarloos-bitch who now owns this work...

I have done two .zip-files and just upload them. Where shall I post the links? Into the pattern-section?

Thanks for your positive words! Actually I really did not use a tri-weave-stamp - the whole piece is done with nothing more than a beveler and one backgrounder. I used a stencil for the wolf, the rest was drawn freehand on the wet leather. I am a bit minimalistic when it comes to the use of tools - I almost exclusively use bevelers and backgrounders. Here's a pic of some self-made tools I used back in the reenactment days: I am really back to the basics, hehe

Thanks a lot to all of you for this hearty, warm welcome here!!! And of course thanks for all your nice words - compliments are fuel for the creativity. I promise - you'll get to see more

Daggrim: First of all: Thanks for your words! Yeah, these Viking dragons and beasts have their unique vibes - and the best way to explore their magic is to recreate them again and again - and leather is a perfect material for this... Unfortunately I don't know a special website, I started collecting everything I could find some years ago - most patterns I actually got from books. But if there are more people around here who share this intrest, I could make a .rar-file and load it up somewhere...