First attempt at tooling - Irish halfpenny

[Alisdair]

I recently picked up an old Irish half-penny in the box of coins the kids play with at home. I love this design: it was adapted from the Collectio canonum Hibernensis by the Irish artist Gabriel Hayes. Collectio canonum Hibernensis is thought to have been compiled by two Irish scholars working in the late 7th or 8th century, Cú Chuimne of Iona (died 747) and Ruben of Dairinis (died 725).

Anyhow, I liked the design and tooled it into vegetable tanned leather. I'm not sure what I'll do with this...perhaps a notebook cover.

 

[chrisash]

The Irish would call it 

" I am so hungry, i could eat my foot"