I am doing scrimshaw horns right now and this one is more traditional fraktur with geometric designs and stylized flowers. I skipped the color on this one except for the ferric nitrate stain giving a little yellow color to the horn. This right hand horn is 14″ around the outside curve and 11.5″ tip to […]
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I am doing more scrimshawed horns right now and trying some new things. This is my latest effort featuring a Carolina parakeet and a Northern Cardinal along with some fraktur flowers. I hope you like it. This right hand horn is 14″ around the outside curve and 11.5″ tip to tip, not including the […]
Read More… from Applied-tip Powder Horn with Color Fraktur (Horn #44)
This Virginia inspired powder horn has an applied Axis deer antler tip and turned black walnut base plug and stopper. The base plug has an acorn finial which was common on Virginia powder horns. The horn is technically a left hand horn, but is so straight it could be easily carried either way. It was […]
Read More… from Acorn Finial, Applied-tip Powder Horn #41 with Color Fraktur
This is a Virginia inspired, banded, applied-tip powder horn. It is a left hand horn that may be worn on either side. The tip is Axis deer antler. The base plug and stopper are black walnut. The horn has been dyed with ferric nitrate and gently aged. The horn is […]
Read More… from Virginia Single Banded, Applied-tip Powder Horn #40
This is a powder horn that I have had on my build list a while and finally got around to doing it. It is a recreation of a horn shown on pages 334-335 of Jay Hopkin’s book Bone Tipped & Banded Horns. That horn was found in Virginia and the acorn is a Virginia motif. […]
The Face of God Fraktur I decided that I wanted to combine my fraktur (18th & 19th Century German-American folk art) work with my leather work in some way. Some sort of embroidery seemed the most sensible way to do it. So, I decided to create an original fraktur design hand embroidered on a canvas […]
Read More… from Fur Trade Era Hunting Pouch with Fraktur Embroidery Insert
Original Fraktur Illustrations Shown here are some of my original designs inspired by 18th and 19th Century fraktur. Fraktur is the term for the illuminated documents created in the 18th & 19th centuries by German speaking immigrants to America. Fraktur is typically associated with Pennsylvania, but it can be found anywhere that large groups of […]