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

[J. Kim Siddorn]

Nope, that's what rawhide is here, too!

Regards,

Kim Siddorn

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


> 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
>