I made some pouches for them to go to the last event and I mentioned them to Manveron, being our local pirate afficianado. They turned out pretty well so I thought you might like to see them.
The concept came due to them not being able to find the exact pouch that was suitable to their particular personas. They are sisters, as in real life, and French Privateers, so they wanted something that was ellegant but at the same time durable and just a little rakish.
I started with a soft black suede for the body and realized I would need to reenforce the back belt tabbard and the flap with some harder leather both for tooling and stregnth. So I took a page from the Brian Grubbs Sporan project (Thanks Brian!)and made them in very much the same way.
I did change the pouch shape to a modified medeival military triangle pouch and dropped the center to a point were the loop strap would go. Then I sewed some black tassles into the other two corners to make them a bit more fancy.
The buttons were matched to the additional mug straps I made to go with them and were color coordinated for the "Silver Rose" Theme and the sister's "Brass and Poppies" theme as well.
The rear tabbard that supported the belt was originally going to just be made with two vertical belt slits, but we could not decide if the pouches would be worn at the belt level or below, or what thickness belt was to be used.
So I slit the tabbard at four points horizantaly to put in the adjustible loops with buckes. This way they had more options for wearing the pouches as the needs changed with the wardrobe.
Lots of fun, I kinda like the whole "soft suede" thing and the leather reenforcement still allowed me to tool in the details.
Hope you like them, the girls did and got many compliments wich made my day!
