Hello from Canada

[AntlerRiverLeather]

On 9/3/2019 at 11:21 AM, chrisash said:

I love the bag but must question a rose design on what looks a heritage bag design, maybe something more indidunus to your location would be a more interesting insert

Thanks. Client approved the design before I started on the tooling. It was chosen for the design by their request. 

[AntlerRiverLeather]

On 9/3/2019 at 11:50 AM, mikesc said:

Umm..Chris

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rose

note in particular the sentence there..

Roses are as native ( and thus indigenous to AntlerRiverLeather from "Canada. Little reserve of Chippewas of the Thames First Nation" ) as Bison, Wolf, Deer and Coyote etc, to name just some of the fauna, and not to mention the vast array of flora .

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_bison

Bison range ( for example ) was far greater than TV and Cinema would have you believe..almost all of what people think that they know about cultures and lands of the First Nations, is not told by them..and is mostly inaccurate..

The "First Nations" are comprised of many peoples..once it ( North America and South America ) was all theirs, from the Atlantic ocean to the Pacific ocean, from the Arctic to Tierra del Fuego.

Hello, Bonjour, Dia dhuit*.. to you AntlerRiverLeather..Beautiful sac you made there 

*Some ( but not much ) of my Gaeilge I remember ( and it is similar in some ways to Breton )..but no longer enough for conversation.

Aanii (hello) Thanks for making me feel welcome and thanks for sharing that indeed you are right.                  Miigwetch (thanks)

[Sheilajeanne]

Hi, another resident of Ontario here!

Very nice bag!

The local Tandy store had some golden elk hide available the second last time I was there. It was absolutely GORGEOUS, but oh, was it EXPENSIVE!! 

In spite of that, it was sold out by the time of my next visit...

Where do you get your elk hide, and what did it cost per square foot?

Another question...I am very interested in porcupine quill work. Do you know of anyone who does it, and could help me learn? The sewing looks fairly straightforward. It's cleaning and dyeing the quills I'd like help with.

[AntlerRiverLeather]

On 9/16/2019 at 9:54 AM, Sheilajeanne said:

Hi, another resident of Ontario here!

Very nice bag!

The local Tandy store had some golden elk hide available the second last time I was there. It was absolutely GORGEOUS, but oh, was it EXPENSIVE!! 

In spite of that, it was sold out by the time of my next visit...

Where do you get your elk hide, and what did it cost per square foot?

Another question...I am very interested in porcupine quill work. Do you know of anyone who does it, and could help me learn? The sewing looks fairly straightforward. It's cleaning and dyeing the quills I'd like help with.

Thanks.

$6 per sq ft. From a guy in Toronto I just met recently having trouble getting more posted out to me right now. However $6-$7 for moose or buffalo in oneida. Trying to get more right now but having trouble it's pow wow season right now coming to a end and they're vendors and it's a traveling circuit. I don't like paying Tandys price on elk or deer. Or anything native heritage it feels like jacked up prices when there's local stuff available. I dabble with quills but I'm not a teacher. I don't know anyone locally teaching it alot local are self taught. It's fairly straightforward with no real secrets to clean though small tub, soap and lukewarm water, and lots and lots of hours to clean carefully by hand and then paper thinned out single layers to dry out and then sort out (this is where you can bulk dye and sort after or sort first and dye your sorted piles for what colors you need.)( I bulk dye big handfuls of what I want and sort it out after because I'm not good at dyeing and some close up and become only really useable for flat work when I dye)

[Sheilajeanne]

Does leather dye work on them?  What sort of dye do you use?

[AntlerRiverLeather]

Just now, Sheilajeanne said:

Does leather dye work on them?  What sort of dye do you use?

I use commercial powder pigments kettle point had a selection meant for fabrics that worked really well. I haven't tried leather dye but maybe the water stain offered by ecoflo at tandy may work I would test it before doing a big batch you want non bleeding permanent deep penetrating color. Treat it as a porous delicate fabric when dyeing and I'm sure that many techniques will work.