I'm having trouble comming up with other compounds with "fit" in them. I didn't do an exhausitve search, but I haven't really found anything at all.
I'm comming at this from the Re-enactment side of things, so I've made several pairs of shoes, and also nalbound items at accurate guages (I used to drive people nuts complaining about the chunki lopi stuff.)
The main pair of shoes I've been wearing for the past two years have linnen uppers, and they're fine down to Icelandic winter temperatures, given nalbound wool socks and woolen insoles. Nalebound woolen uppers woudl be significantly warmer and more water-resistant than these. That said two layers of nalbound footwear might be kinda odd. But in any case, fine for three seasons at least.
<shrug> I'm warming to the idea of leg leather, but it seems either to contrast with the rest of the dress, or else there's somehting about leg-leather I don't know. It usually has wierd stretchinesses that cause problems, in my experience, but maybe there's a way to predict and use this???
Has anyone seen another reference to fitskuua, or to another compound like this?
Mnarg.
-Unnr
On 06/07/07, Fred and Grace Hatton <hatton@...> wrote:
I have made a couple of pair of nalbinded (nalbound?) socks. I think much
of today's nalbinding uses fairly thick wool compared to what they were
probably using then. If the nalbinding uppers were felted it would help to
strengthen them. Maybe these are some sort of indoor slippers. One can
grease leather to help make it waterproof, but wool absorbs water like
crazy- - never bump into a sheep that has been out in the rain!
Generally the thickest part of a hide would be the shoulders, then the back
and the sides. One would assume the shoulder would be used for the sole and
the flared part of the upper leg above the hock would be a natural for the
leg part of a boot. I don't think there is anything implied about using
scrap leather.
Grace
Fred and Grace Hatton
Hawley Pa
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