The needlebones are two small bones - this is a whole needlebone, not broken or shaped (though many are pointer than this one) - in the front legs of, i assume all cervids but at least deer. Useful for making awls, and, as the name suggests, needles, but they're honestly kind of a bother lol, they m...

Once it got to leather! I used the needlebone of a deer for incising



Just realised this kind of lamp is essentially just a tallow candle where the mould is the same as the dish it's lit in

I've make and used a similar lamp before - for quite long periods of time - it was unfired though, and quite cracked, so I had to keep it in a tray to prevent oil slowly leaking out the bottom, lol. But these kinds of lamps aren't really a fire hazard the way modern oil lamps (or even candles) are, ...

Im currently taking a course in ceramics analysis for my archaeology minor, and one of the 'labs' involves making pottery One thing I decided to make is based on the grease lamp found at birka, though I rounded and smoothed it more and incised it with a pattern based on Elleth's numenorean leaf-arc ...

Yeah, I don't think there's a coherent system of 'what goods are available in the Shire' because it's more vibes based than logic based - they have access to the goods of the British empire at its height, but conveniently without empire lol, except not everything! So they have tea, coffee, silk, sug...

I decided to do a search of a bunch of Tolkien's books for silk to see what came up, and it gets mentioned surprisingly few times (the elves have lots of 'silken' things, but only one mention of them in relation to silk). There is a mention of silk robes in the best of Beren and lúthien and dwarves ...

It's listed on fanedit.info/fanedits , but it requires you to use a program called jDownloader to download it - it was a bit of faff getting it to work properly (you have to add your Google account in the program to download the file from the Google drive they're hosted in because of their size, for...

Quite possible - it occured to me and I thought likely that whatever traditional woodworker that was consulted likely provided their own tool, but not that they may also have been the actor in question

I do quite a lot of traditional woodworking, yeah! Though I usually go for a Bailey-style plane - I have a WODEN, made in Wednesbury in the '50s - for my smoothing plane, purely because of the ease of adjustment. I do have a coffin smoother but it's missing it's chip-brealer so it's not really usabl...

My dog's been loving the bones too! I got a head as well, to use the lower jaw for a corn-scraper. A truck bed would def have been easier - I was using a 120L backpack and my bike panniers, lmao, biking along the rural highway bits there was no bus route and taking a bus the rest of the way. I took ...

I was watching a fan-edit of the Hobbit, to see if the film could be redeemed on that basis, and something in the Shire scenes immediately caught my eye. https://i.imgur.com/lqCGGjQ.png That's a traditional-style English wooden 'coffin' smoothing plane! And even better - that hobbit is holding it in...

Yeah there is an extremely strong association in Tolkien imo between elves and the Church, and so even on a broader thematic level the 'elven hookup' (and numenorean heritage) works to grant the Dunedain access to a variety of technologies (thinking also of - was it Elleth's? Raw silk tunic that was...

If I understand correctly, the the early middle ages (at least in northwestern Europe) lighting and such beyond the hearth fire was usually done with oil lamps or rush lights (the pith of rushes soaked in tallow, unfortunately I have not found any suitable rushes growing in this region). I don't see...

Yeah, for me I think I only ever put fur on the outside of something if there's already fur on the inside (except ruffs and trim, but even then), to accomplish one or all of - more fur = more warm, and I need more warm (a sneaky layer of polarfleece between if even more is needed) - I need to shed s...

Related, does anyone know what these sorts of long sleeveless coats (I'm pretty sure this one is sheep) are called?

Pictured: bear claw Chris lapp wearing one in Jeremiah Johnson