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Strider's Duster
V 4.0 - Nov, 2003
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Strider costume from London exhibit
(or here for high rez)
Many more pictures on the made Strider
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(From Casa Loma) |
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Front of Strider's Duster. Note it
laces completely under the arm and the sides. The shoulders are
fake lacing and actually stitched in place. Everything but bottom
edge and sleeves are wrapped in leather. There are 5 braided ties |
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Duster tie is made out of the same
braided leather cord as on the duster. Note the coat color looks
right here. |
Neck line detail. Note stitching |
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Detail of the lacing under the arm and
sides |
Detail of duster and jerkin lacing. 1/2
inch fold-over leather braid forms edge binding. Machine stitched
down. Holes are cut slights just wide enough to lace flat leather
lacing though. (Ver2, FIDM confirmed final.) |
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Highly magnified detail showing how the
leather is joined at the waist. Uses baseball stitch to butt the
two edges together. |
Main duster tie, cropped and highlined to
bring out detail. Braided cord. See how it is coiled slightly where it
is sewn to the duster. Long loose ends. |
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Detail of inside sleeve, (prelim, edging is more frayed
at the bottom that drawn here.) |
Left arm |
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The plain sleeve. Note frayed edge.
Also, note how pacing edge is finished off at wrist level. Sleeve
comes down over knuckles |
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Note ragged edge of duster. This
has been lightened so the green color of the duster is lost |
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- FIDM exhibit - tilted
- FIDM exhibit - 3 shot - Strider, Sauron, Isildur
- FIDM exhibit
- E3 pictures - different arrow shafts on display
- Sepia portrait
- Fire in the background
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- cu, dark screen cap, good rez
- look at his shoulder seam
- Putting Frodo on the horse - backs of Arwen and Aragorn
- First seeing Gandalf the white - high angle
- Mitt and sleeve
- A smoking break, sitting, arm out
- Asian banner
- Detail - Aragorn, ready to draw sword, snow on Frodo's cloak
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Misc notes
- Duster edging
- leather fold over trim for the edging. (showing about 1/2 or 5/8
inch wide.
It is folded in half... so cut strips inch+ wide) If not use double fold seam binding. Goes around everything but the end of the
sleeve and bottom of the duster.
- Ties
- Shirt ties are plain old nylon ties, in black. Other ties
are that very thin braded leather -- boot ties, jerkin ties, coat tie.
Each end is finished a bit differently, but that have somewhere too.
- Interview bits
- The duster (which she just calls "coat"): "There is a very beautiful
piece of leather on one arm of his coat that is very heavily leather-worked
and has a lot of leather-thread embroidery on it. The ides is that that was
there because it was for protection"
- LOTR: FCOMM, V4, "The Costumes of Middle-earth: An Interview with Ngila
Dickson" by Dan Madsen
- Jen RD's notes
- I found that garment weight (plonge) leather worked very well for
both the duster and the vest. You can sew it with a regular sewing
machine (use a leather needle). I used a machine to sew the coat panels
together at the shoulder. Almost every panel of the coat then has leather
bound edges and I was able to do that on my sewing machine as well. I
just cut a ton of 1 inch wide strips, folded them over the edge and
stitched them through the 3 layers. I used a leather punch to put the
lacing holes in all the pieces.
- I get my leather from
www.hidehouse.com . It runs about $85 per half hide, or split. The
garment weight comes in several colors. I used the rough side out for the
suede vest. I used most of one split for the vest and 1.5 splits for the
duster.
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