What time period of "medieval"? What are you wearing it with? Generally, length depends on whether or not you're tripping on it and what your socio-economic class is. The more money (or rank) you have, the longer and fancier your belt.
The best thing I've found to soften leather is use, or you can treat it with mink oil and work it a lot. Or let your dogs chew on it, but then you'll have toothmarks. ;-) Jen/pixel/Margaret On Mon, 14 Apr 2008, Cynthia J Ley wrote: > I've used both Fettered Cock and Billie and Charlie's. Nice stuff. FC > pieces are generally a bit heavier than B&C's. Excellent customer service > from both, very nice work. Mark de Gaulker's work is stellar (he's a > fellow An Tirian). He puts out a lot of jeweler's quality work as well, a > little pricey at times but so worth it! > > Belt questions: I have a very nice long leather belt that I bought from > one of our local merchants. I'm going to use saddle soap to soften it up, > but it is quite stiff--is there anything else I can do, short of having > my dogs chew on it? > > Also, how long would a medieval lady's belt be? I need to trim it but am > unsure of how much to take off. > > Thanks! > Arlys _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
