I've been experimenting with making leather bracelets this week; nothing difficult, because I've never worked with leather before. These are my first two efforts: Leather has, of course, been used for thousands of years- for clothes and shoes, armour, and many other things including paper (vellum). And, obviously, jewelry; the earliest surviving example of this was found in 2003, on a bog person unearthed in Ireland. Named Old Croghan Man after the area in which he was found (Croghan Hill) the poor fellow seems to have met a violent end sometime between 362 BC and 175 BC, having been stabbed and decapitated. He was, however, wearing a snazzy bit of leather jewelry at the time- a braided armband with bronze accents: It's speculated that Old Croghan Man was of high rank because he was 6' 6'' tall, had a diet rich in meat, and had well-manicured fingernails. His clothes were taken, either pre or post mortem, so nothing can be discerned from those. We are fortunate, however, that his armband wasn't removed, leaving us with the earliest example we have of an ornamental work of leather. Which, even after a couple thousand years in a bog, looks fancier than the one I made this week.
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