As much as I hate posting over myself, I'm going to do it again

Updates.
All of the cantle plates are cut, shaped, slicked, cased and marked for stitches. Tooling and hammering is finished on the front plate.


An interesting little development is the potential addition of the small, pinked decorative trim shown edging the cantle (this one is a test piece). This detail may not stay in, but occurred to me yesterday as I was looking at some of the MacLeay illustrations.

I had originally proposed it in red, but the commissioner wanted to stay monochrome.

Back to progress:

The top-knot is finished and dyed, the gusset is cut, all of the interiors are trimmed in their red suede, and tonight I begin dyeing the cantle plates and cutting miles of lace for all of the braid work.