ChristinaFjala Report post Posted November 7, 2018 Hi everyone, I'm a 24 year old girl from Austria/Europe and started playing around with leather a year ago! My resent project was a bosal - made with the book and supplies from Gail Hought, material was kangaroo leather. I'm somewhat satisfied with the result und would like to continue learning braiding bosals, preferably I would like to stick to kangaroo for a while as I've found I was confident with braiding with it. However, I have no idea where to get supplies here in Europe. I would also need some rawhide to build the inner core. For all other projects where I only needed some skirting leather, I've ordered from "SoftArtLeder" https://www.softart-leder-shop.de/btc/ but they do only carry one color of kangaroo (black). Where do you European guys order your bosal supply? Do you think I can start with some other leather types provided by SoftArtLeder for the beginning? Any tip is highly appreciated!! With best regards, Christina Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
monkeytamer Report post Posted November 7, 2018 Hi, Im not entirely sure what a Bosal is but try checking out the following sites: https://www.rickert-werkzeug.de/en/ http://leatherhouse.eu http://curtidoscarrasco.com Hope this helps Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Alisdair Report post Posted November 7, 2018 Hi Christina, I order my leather fromhttps://buyleatheronline.com/en/ ...they're in Italy. Their thick veg tan shoulders and butts are good. Their bellies are pretty good value, but you will get the odd piece that isn't perfect. I like their pig skin, too. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Rockoboy Report post Posted November 8, 2018 As an exercise, get a quote for your leather including delivery, from Birdsall leather in Botany Bay, Australia. I have bought a fair amount from them, and never seen a bad piece. Delivery might price it out of your range, but if you don't ask, you will never know. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
bermudahwin Report post Posted November 8, 2018 I think a Bosal is a Head Stall, from ancient memory... then I looked at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bosal so they're hackamore nosebands, that I have only seen in rawhide. If you are using kangaroo, falconers use it for some of their products, one source in the UK is https://www.identityleathercraft.com/index.php/the-leather-room/veg-tan-kangaroo-leather-and-other-leather-types-for-falconry.html Best H Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
