~16 Cylus 716~
The scent of dyes and oils filling his nose as the door opened, Norgrim looked upon the interior of his workplace as the morning sun cast it's scarce rays into the building. The only workman here, he was responsible for next to everything regarding the shop, from taking orders, to accepting payment and even working on the projects himself, yet all the same Norgrim cared little for that as it meant that everything remained as it should.
Taking the time to light a few candles, the young man stepped up to his workbench after opening the upper half of his shop's door. The sudden rush of cold air invigorating his frame before the male's eyes fell upon an unfinished pair of boots and the initial form of twin bracers, already sized for the clients forearms and the dimensions set, it was simply a matter of setting the rawhide down before finally wrapping leather around it. The boots simply waited on a special threading requested by the client as these were made purely for the purpose of houseware, allowing Norgrim to focus his attention on other things until it's arrival.
Taking time to step in the back and retrieve some previously tanned hides, such dyed black and grey per the order itself. The hides then were placed upon the table, Norgrim reaching over into a series of hooks and shelves upon the wall before him to grasp the cold metallic handle of shears. Setting the tools down for the moment, he placed the tanned hides face down upon his table, pressing and then rolling the form upon it to make a crude impressing of it's form and the patterns to be engraved upon it. The process itself repeated multiple times in order to set this somewhat and allow at least a crude tracing of such onto the backside of the hide itself.
The nearby bowls of various wax sticks and chalk served as marking instruments for such, Norgrim carefully running a pointed piece of chalk over the pressed lines. Taking care to trace just outside of each impression as to give himself a touch of room for the process of folding, and pressing the hides into their respective places. The flow of traffic within Treidhart's markets picking up, the young man knew that soon enough he would have another customer aiming to buy one of his already pre-prepared items, such as belts, gloves of varying sizes, or perhaps even some of the more supple leather he sold to furniture makers and tailors. That or someone aiming to place another order for perhaps an article of leather armor, or perhaps a customized engraving, all the same such was the way of the world for Norgrim. Such being expressed as the shears that were previously set aside finally bit into the hide which he finished tracing upon just prior.
The cutting itself is typically one of the far more arduous processes in the making of custom fit articles, or any kind of armor in general. The sheer thickness of the leather used being the main factor, as there was no way to cut such quickly, even with heat if it were used wouldn't burn through these compressed hides in any short order. Such was the point of these armor grade hides, they were meant to be resistant to blades and punctures, as such it took at least an hour for the young man to cut the two pieces of hide necessary to wrap about the forms later on.
The scent of dyes and oils filling his nose as the door opened, Norgrim looked upon the interior of his workplace as the morning sun cast it's scarce rays into the building. The only workman here, he was responsible for next to everything regarding the shop, from taking orders, to accepting payment and even working on the projects himself, yet all the same Norgrim cared little for that as it meant that everything remained as it should.
Taking the time to light a few candles, the young man stepped up to his workbench after opening the upper half of his shop's door. The sudden rush of cold air invigorating his frame before the male's eyes fell upon an unfinished pair of boots and the initial form of twin bracers, already sized for the clients forearms and the dimensions set, it was simply a matter of setting the rawhide down before finally wrapping leather around it. The boots simply waited on a special threading requested by the client as these were made purely for the purpose of houseware, allowing Norgrim to focus his attention on other things until it's arrival.
Taking time to step in the back and retrieve some previously tanned hides, such dyed black and grey per the order itself. The hides then were placed upon the table, Norgrim reaching over into a series of hooks and shelves upon the wall before him to grasp the cold metallic handle of shears. Setting the tools down for the moment, he placed the tanned hides face down upon his table, pressing and then rolling the form upon it to make a crude impressing of it's form and the patterns to be engraved upon it. The process itself repeated multiple times in order to set this somewhat and allow at least a crude tracing of such onto the backside of the hide itself.
The nearby bowls of various wax sticks and chalk served as marking instruments for such, Norgrim carefully running a pointed piece of chalk over the pressed lines. Taking care to trace just outside of each impression as to give himself a touch of room for the process of folding, and pressing the hides into their respective places. The flow of traffic within Treidhart's markets picking up, the young man knew that soon enough he would have another customer aiming to buy one of his already pre-prepared items, such as belts, gloves of varying sizes, or perhaps even some of the more supple leather he sold to furniture makers and tailors. That or someone aiming to place another order for perhaps an article of leather armor, or perhaps a customized engraving, all the same such was the way of the world for Norgrim. Such being expressed as the shears that were previously set aside finally bit into the hide which he finished tracing upon just prior.
The cutting itself is typically one of the far more arduous processes in the making of custom fit articles, or any kind of armor in general. The sheer thickness of the leather used being the main factor, as there was no way to cut such quickly, even with heat if it were used wouldn't burn through these compressed hides in any short order. Such was the point of these armor grade hides, they were meant to be resistant to blades and punctures, as such it took at least an hour for the young man to cut the two pieces of hide necessary to wrap about the forms later on.
