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Jon Snow Costume - season 7 (replica) by Svetliy-Sudar

...or "briefly about our plans for the spring ..." :dummy with a sword: 

Update: it was winter 2020 ... but the plans are the same :squee: 

Background - screenshot from the TV series Game of Throne.
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Hi!) It’s Anastasia, and today I’ll tell you about how we created our first screen accurate replica – Leather Hobbit’s Backpack (inspired Bilbo Baggins) from The LOTR and The Hobbit movie trilogies.

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In December 2012, the first part of the “Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey” appeared on the screens and we fell in love with this backpack at first sight!

I remember the first thing I said after leaving the cinema: “We just have to do such a backpack! We have never done such difficult things! Let’s try!”

Impressions, of course, there was a lot … but with the references everything was much worse… Nevertheless, our “hands itched”, so in the intervals between orders, we searched for any information that would help us. We even once again quickly reviewed the beginning of the first part of The Lord of the Rings, in which this backpack (already shabby) appears in the frame for a couple of seconds. 

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In addition, we managed to get scans from the art book with drawings of the backpack, which simplified our calculations a little.

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As a result, we have begun to select materials only in October… And who would have thought how difficult it would be to find the brown leather of the right color: not too dark, so as not to appear black; not too light, so that there is a contrast with the side walls; not too glossy, but also not polished…

In November 2013, we finally managed to choose leather (four kinds for different details), the right flex (for lining) and the fittings that suited us both! 

As my diary shows, we started work on this project on December 3, 2013 at 22.50. The next time mark (among the endless pages with calculations of proportions and patterns) suggests that by December 5 we have already worked with this 17 hours.

We really wanted to finish it for the premiere of the second part, so this was just the case when we worked intermittently only for sleep and food… Nothing can motivate better than your own stubbornness! 

And on December 9 we finally finished work on it! It tooks: about 35 feet of leather, a meter of flax, 5 buckles, a handful of rivets, one beautiful button and 52 hours of painstaking work.

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The result inspired us so much that we found the strength to add small but nice bonuses: a hand-embroidered letter-logo and a miniature Red Book.

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And then we turned the whole house upside down in search of the right scenery for an improvised photo shoot … but that’s another story … 

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In 2013, we created more than three dozen different notebooks, diaries and notebooks.

But on the mind first of all comes the Leather diary Mearas (working title “Rohan”). The history of its creation deserves attention …

In January 2013, before we moved to our current workshop, we went “out of town” for a small creative vacation … away from civilization and the Internet …)))

In case if we’ll suddenly get bored, we took several pieces of different leather, a pyrography, an album, colored pencils and craft paper…well, in general, what is there usually people take with them on vacation … :))) And since access to the Internet was not foreseen, we also took hard-disk with our favorite films.

As a result, on one long winter evening, while we watched the second part of the Lord of the Rings, the idea of an embossed leather diary with the Rohirrim symbol was born.

It’s not hard to guess that the legendary white horse and the flag elements were in the center of attention.

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But for the cover that was not enough… We thought about the design of the frame for a long time. Considered the interiors of Edoras … and eventually stopped at the carved elements of the decoration of the palace.

Of course, they had to be recycled so that the pattern could be repeated on the leather. Corners didn’t turn out right away too (the sketch shows that there were at least three options).

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And now, when everything was finally understood with the concept, we were faced with the problem of the absence of our working computer at hand…we had to draw the drawing for pyrography by hand…actually, it was not easy at all…. )))

And then there was a priography… a lot and a long time… first a frame, and then a central drawing…

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The result we were very pleased! So much so that we even changed our mind about dyeing the leather in red, like we were going to first.
Later we tried on several color schemes (in the style of Andy Warhol;)) to this diary, but in the end we decided that nothing better than a natural cognac shade of this leather!

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As for the “internal content” … now we certainly would have done it better, but at that time we did not plan to deal with bindings and did not have the necessary skills. So the corners and the fixing of the pages leave much to be desired …)))

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But nevertheless, this work rightfully occupies one of the first places in the list of our most beloved ..!

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Leather handmade wallet “Capricorn” from our new collection “Medieval Horoscope”.

This can be an excellent gift for all lovers of the Middle Ages, the Renaissance and just connoisseurs of beautiful things!

The basis of this painting is a schematic depiction of the constellation of Capricorn. It is complemented by the stylization of this mythical animal in monochrome color.
Stars twinkle in reflected light and this effect gives the wallet a special fabulous charm! ^_^

To maintain the overall medieval style in the design of the frame, we used floral ornament and font of the 15th century.

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In order to make a relief pattern of the frame, we used pyrography. This choice was not accidental. Pyrography, unlike hot stamping, gives the pattern a light silvery sheen. And this effect connects all the elements of this composition.

As for colors…we decided to choose the natural colors of stained oak and lush foliage.

Inside the wallet has one compartment for cash, three pockets for cards and one for coins.
There is a leather strap with a button for closing.
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The monogram is inscribed in the pattern of the frame in capital letters.

Wallet Size: 4.73″ x 3.86″ (when closed).

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If you want to order a personalized wallet:

– we can change the sign of the zodiac
– we can change the color scheme
– we can change the monogram or replace it with an ornament

All this is included in the indicated cost.

 

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Costume - Svetliy Sudar Leather Arts Workshop
Photographer & retouch - Anton Tokarev 
Model - Endi Voznesensky
Weapon by Dolphin White


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