The excavations at Chancery lane produced a total of 15 Brogues and 15 Shoes in both children’s and adult sizes and some of these have featured in previous posts. In all there were […]
Yearly archives: 2017
3 This particular project took a long time to finish – the stitching is very tricky! I originally began it about 2 years ago when I decided to make a new scabbard for my […]
Dublin Leather Scabbards – DLS 294
6 I have been holding this post to co-incide with the Experimental Archaeology conference EAC 10 which is currently underway in Leiden. Most of the replicas I make are essentially experimental in nature rather […]
Early Medieval Irish Shoe
In my post on the Anatomy of a Brogue from Chancery Lane I may well have chosen the most difficult example to work with – a case of Murphy’s Law! As you can […]
Making a Replica Chancery Lane Brogue: 2
I was in correspondence with Bob Greesh in the US before Christmas and we discussed the scarcity of accurate info for making quality replica footwear for depicting Irish Kerns of the 16th century. […]
Making a replica Chancery Lane Brogue
This is the first in a series of posts which will feature the leather finds from Chancery lane in Dublin. The footwear came from the infill of a late medieval quarry which lay […]
Anatomy of a Brogue from Chancery Lane in Dublin.
1 I originally started this particular replica several months ago and it has been waiting patiently ever since to be completed. The reason for the delay – tunnel stitching! All I can say at […]
York Style 1 Shoe – 10th century
2 DLS 46. High Street E71:3825 Late twelfth-thirteenth century L: 145mm W: 35mm T: 2mm sheep/goat Sheath: complete. Edge seam in running stitch, transverse slits at 6mm intervals. No […]
Dublin Leather Scabbards 2: DLS 46
3 This is the first in a series of posts in which I plan to describe the making of replicas of the various sheath and scabbard types recovered in the Dublin excavations and published […]