[Regia-NA] Re: list-regia-na digest, Response to Kim Sidon

Sun, 23 Mar 2003 17:09:37 EST

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Once again, English is the language that divides us.  Here in the SE USA, 
rawhide is a cow (mostly) hide that has been scraped and dehaired but not 
tanned.  It is stiff as a board but can be shaped with water or hot oil.  It 
comes in a variety of weights (or thicknesses) depending on the animal; ox 
being thicker that cow which is about equal to horse.  Also the back is 
usually thicker than the sides or belly.  If it gets thoroughly soaked, it 
can be shaped into drumheads, sandle soles, shield rims and coverings, and 
can even be made into small coffers and (if wood is used to frame bottom and 
sides) can even be made into chests.  I have seen such a chest with a curved 
lid in which the front, back, and top were made from pieces of rawhide tacked 
to wooden bottom, sides, and top pieces.  The chest was not hinged but had 
thin pieces attached to the wooden portions of the lid that extended into the 
bottom of the chest.  The whole was covered with a thin coat of gesso, 
painted with egg tempera, and then sealed.  It weight less that half what an 
all wood chest would have       weighed.  The only disadvantage I noted was 
that the owner had to keep people from sitting on the lid.

Pagan 

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