Vegetable tanning uses bark rather than chromium salts. It takes months instead of days, and it produces hide that tools cleanly, holds a stamped pattern and hardens when it is wet formed. That is why every piece of historical leather worth copying was tanned this way, and why a sheath made from it keeps its shape.
Sheaths, scabbards and worn pieces
Staveguard is the largest, a rune tooled sword scabbard with a steel chape and a matching belt, wool lined over a wooden core, cut for blades to thirty one inches. Knotwelt is the knife version, tooled with a Celtic knotwork panel, brass rivets and a belt loop, for blades to ten inches. Two axe sheaths follow the same method. Haftmask carries a tooled Mjolnir panel with steel snaps and a hand stitched welt, cut for bearded heads to a six inch edge. Edgekeep is the plainer one with a Vegvisir stamp and solid brass snap fittings. Worn pieces round it out: Roanward is a studded cuirass for a forty four inch chest, and Runecuff is a pair of bracers with embossed Elder Futhark and steel roller buckles.
The sheaths sit in scabbards and sheaths, the worn hide in leather armor and the rest in accessories.
Free US shipping
On most pieces. Heavier and oversized ones carry a flat charge.
Hand Forged
Heated, hammered and ground by hand.
Engraving available
Names, dates or Norse runes on most pieces.
