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Main Discussion Area => Primitive Skills => Topic started by: IsaacW on November 14, 2013, 10:17:55 am

Title: New mocs
Post by: IsaacW on November 14, 2013, 10:17:55 am

After a year + hiatus from moccasin making, I decided to give it a go again.  Here is what I made this past week (fancy enough to look nice but not sooo fancy that you hate to wear them)...

(http://frenchinwisconsin.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/mocs-1024x764.jpg)

Title: Re: New mocs
Post by: Pappy on November 14, 2013, 11:03:52 am

Very nice work,bet they are confe.  :)
Pappy

Title: Re: New mocs
Post by: Silver John on November 14, 2013, 11:59:32 am

I like them.  They look like brain tanned deer hide. What is the leather?  A bead between each pucker is a nice touch.  Very good.   

Title: Re: New mocs
Post by: IsaacW on November 14, 2013, 12:47:34 pm

Quote from: Silver John on November 14, 2013, 11:59:32 am

I like them.  They look like brain tanned deer hide. What is the leather?  A bead between each pucker is a nice touch.  Very good.

Braintan deer, yes!! Nice and smokey! 

The bead between the puckers I took from a few 18th century pairs of mocs I have seen.

IW

Title: Re: New mocs
Post by: Olanigw (Pekane) on November 14, 2013, 12:51:48 pm

Good work and nice stitching/beading

Title: Re: New mocs
Post by: ksnow on November 14, 2013, 04:59:25 pm

Very nice mocs Isaac.  I may have to borrow that bead idea.

Kyle

Title: Re: New mocs
Post by: JW_Halverson on November 14, 2013, 09:02:29 pm

Very nice indeed!  Those are some very authentic looking teepee creepers. 

But don't you find it hard using the lovely pink flashpan brushes on a flintlock when they are tied to your shoes???   :-\

Title: Re: New mocs
Post by: chamookman on November 15, 2013, 04:02:29 am

Great lookin' Mocs ! You crack Me up JW. Bob

Title: Re: New mocs
Post by: IsaacW on November 15, 2013, 10:36:43 am

Quote from: JW_Halverson on November 14, 2013, 09:02:29 pm

But don't you find it hard using the lovely pink flashpan brushes on a flintlock when they are tied to your shoes???   :-\

You just have to work on your flexibility... I am a master of monkey feet!

Title: Re: New mocs
Post by: Badly Bent on November 17, 2013, 04:00:30 pm

Very nice looking mocs, I like 'em.

Title: Re: New mocs
Post by: richardzane on November 30, 2013, 09:28:54 pm

those are a GREAT example of the style mocs we(Wyandot,Delaware,Shawnee) wore in Ohio in the mid 1700s and into the 1800s.
you did a great job in puckering the toe and using that pucker pull ends to hang those copper cones, just as it used to be done.
very authentic work
so...actually these wouldn't be teepee creepers.. :) these would be bark house creepers >:D

Title: Re: New mocs
Post by: JW_Halverson on November 30, 2013, 10:38:05 pm

And dang comfy any way you cut it!