I did some experimenting today.
I have always been intrigued by the lacing in the scabbards at Naumberg, and I wanted to try to reproduce those scabbards.
So I made a mock scabbard with a leather cover and experimented with some Latigo leather. Here is what I came up with. It does not match the Naumburg scabbards perfectly, but at least now I have a basis from which to work.
This is very rough work, I did not do any measuring and everything was rough cut. I was just trying to get the lacing right.
I really like the Latigo leather for the thong belt, it is really soft and strong. My Latigo is 6-8 oz. so I used a belt sander on the flesh side to thin it down to 4 oz. That worked out quite well.
I color-coded the strips on the thong for reference.
Red:
1. Starts out with the blue
2. Splits from the blue on the back of the scabbard
3. Wraps around the front above the lattice work
4. Loops around the thong to hold it down
5. Runs back around the front and passes through a tab in the orange/green strap
6. Terminates behind the scabbard, tucked behind everything else
Blue:
1. Starts out with the red
2. Splits from the red on the back of the scabbard
3. Wraps around the front below the lattice work
4. Directed down on the same side and wraps around the front below the belt
5. Tied in front as a tassel with the green strap
Orange:
1. Starts out with the green
2. Splits from the green on the back of the scabbard
3. Fed through the slits in the offset belt to hold the belt in place
Green:
1. Starts out with the orange
2. Splits from the orange on the back of the scabbard
3. Wraps around the back and around the front below the belt
4. Tied in front as a tassel with the blue strap
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