Lakota Style leggings

[Peatreg]

I just wanted to share the Lakota style leggings that I just completed.  The leggings are of an earlier style of plains clothing.  I find the earlier style plains indian clothing more interesting than the later, more tailored look.  Each legging is made up of one german tanned deerhide.  It's hard to distinguish it from real brain tanned leather.  I did not do the beadwork but sewing it to the leggings was more than enough work in and of itself.  The strips are beaded in a classic Lakota style.  Attached to the top of each beaded strip I attached two red ochered ermine hides.  I am glad to get these done because they took a lot of work and I have more projects to finish, even ones I started before these.

[chamookman]

Nice ! Bob

[BowEd]

You bet.Nice pair of skins there.There is something about the as it comes off of the deer type of tailoring that is appealing.I'd say it's the natural flow of things instead of the more tailored cut scripted look.Wheeoo that was a mouth full...but I hope I got my description accross.That german tanning I think is done with cod liver oil in a barrel for quite some time if I'm not mistaken.I've seen it and it is very soft feeling stuff for sure.You'll find that though as you wear those around camp at rendezvous cooking on a camp fire etc. that a lot of that fringe etc. will get in the way and very dirty from use.I'd only wear them for special occasions.
I don't have a cell phone camera but do have a folder on my comp that has a lot of pics of my brain tan clothes and things.From when I had a scanner copier hooked to my comp and I scanned 35 mm.pics to a picture folder in my comp.Some beaded.Some not,but being comp illiterate don't know how to transfer those pics to this site along with a message.

[Pappy]

Very nice job.
   Pappy

[richardzane]

a lot of work in there. nice beadwork too.
seems to me they NEED to get scuffed and dirtied up a bit, unless your planning on getting married in 'em 
But then
Its kinda like the way some people keep their trucks - emmaculate polish and not a scratch. where some of us like a truck you can kick
or drop a bucket load of dirt into, drive through wild rose bushes, toss firewood into....

[Buffalogobbler]

Really nice, love seeing your beautiful work.

Kevin

[JackCrafty]

 

[BowEd]

Yep richardzane I've been at rendesvous weddings where the couples are dressed in that way.Pretty cool.We always give em a 10 gun salute before they disappear into their teepee......LOL.