Atheists & Agnostics

Leather is a common material in the Renaissance. Many a period doublet is leather.

Here's a great painting of a Spanish tailor (cutting fabric you'll see) in a leather doublet with little pinks all over it.



On "Last of the Mohicans" we made some elk leather 1750's coats.... which were amazing. I wanted one. My friend Linda made Daniel Day Lewis' leather shirt(s). They were out of thin soft chamois. So beautiful! They have this period decoration at the top of the sleeves we found in a book. You take a 1" wide strip of the leather long enough to go around the sleeve, fold it in half lengthwise and make even little snips along the folded edge about 1/4th of an inch (so there's about 1/4th " uncut) when you unfold it you have all these 1/2" horizontal slits running down the strip. Now you sew the strip flat to the sleeve and then with stitches you pinch one to two slits together in the middle...or at one edge and then the other..... there are several variations.

You can see them at the armseye....