Gents
Thanks for the kind words. I like this one. I don't want to start up the H word conversation one more time, but this is what I think about when starting work on a bag like the last two I put up. Finding more than one directive from different colonies that their militia needed to supply a equipment at their own expense, I start asking questions.
Where would they go? Militia-Mart, Sacks-R-Us...
It's the term "at their own expense" that makes wonder, and without any specific documentation again I have to, as the artist, try to put myself back in 18th century shoes.
I'm a man charged to be part of a Civilian Militia. I need a sack. What do I do?
Lets suppose I have money: I could go to tailor or milliner of the day and have one whipped up. Lets suppose money is tight: My wife has some linen, and for my artistic interp, lets say that the linen is a little light... ah! But she also has some ticking lying around, and she lovingly sews her man a new bag so that he can be ready to go defend his country.
It's not just bags that I wonder about... we know about milliners and gun makers and the items they made. Again I am new to this community and board. Were there people who just made horns and shooting bags or would they have been done in tack shop or some other shop?
That's just a little bit of the running process my mind goes through when setting out on a project like this.
Cheers
Morgan Shea
Blackleaf Leather
