Dave - USA
Strider
The long duster is dark green Deer hide that I made a pattern for of a
medieval travel coat. The fold over leather was glued down on the edges for
then leather wrap look and then machine sewn to hole it. All the major seams
were machine sewn the lacing was all punched and hand done. I went over some
of the panel pieces of the long coat to give it a hand sewn look even though
it is machine sewn as well. I just did the herringbone like top stitch for
the look.
The arm patch is very similar to the one in the movie and was also hand
done. I drilled the holes in the leather from a pattern I worked out on
paper. Then I sewed through the holes like a puzzle game to make the
stitching. The "netting" look at the bottom was all hand done as well. At
the top of the patch since
I could never get a good look at that part I improvised and did a kind of
"x" stitch surrounding a six pointed star. The star was the symbol of the
Dunadain but they wore it as a cloak clasp as Aragorn did as Thorongil in
Gondor under Ecthelion. He was known as the "Eagle star" (Thorongil) in
Gondor because of this clasp. I put it on my costume because the Rangers of
the North were always my favorite growing up, especially Halbarad, so since
they won't be in the films I put a little nod to them on my costume.
The boots are modified hiking boots I had. I but the entire upper chasse
of the boot of leaving 1/2 inch around the sole. I then bought upholstery
leather and hand sewed the pieces to the boot. I had to modify it for sizing
a couple times but I guess that makes them look more worn. I then hit them
with a green leather dye, then brown shoe polish followed by a fuller's
earth dusting.
The
Jerkin was made for me. I then modified it and ripped it up a bit. I
replaced the regular leather lace ties with braided leather ties. I also
used vinyl leather ties that are braided for the boots. I recommend the
vinyl for the boots since you need allot. But the leather looks best on the
Jerkin.
The fighting glove was a suede glove I bought at Target. I cut it up and
sewed it back together by hand and then sewed a leather backhand patch onto
it. Then I polished the sued with black leather polish and weather it up a
bit. The belt is from Strapwell leather. I specified the design for them and
they did a great job recreating it.
The pants are just $2 used black jeans although I want to get some black
cotton pants for it instead.
I tried to use as much "real" material as possible, and do most of the
sewing by hand to make it look put together by a Ranger. I wear the coat
hiking so I wanted everything to be durable. I still need to weather the
costume a bit, that is hard, first to rip up and mangle what you've been
working on, second to not overdue it. I basically use Fullers Earth and
different leather oils and polish tones for the weathering.
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