I was recently repairing a costrel of Mark Beabey manufacture and started thinking: leather bottels in collections, museums and exhibits around the UK are almost invariably decorated. Those used by re-enactors are mostly plain. I know the commercial manufacturers do this so the more generic item can be used in wider range of periods and…
Description A representative set of costrels, not all of the shapes I make, but quite a few of them... All are of veg-tanned leather, hardened, then soaked in beeswax, and finally coated internally with beeswax and brewer's pitch mix. These are period up to, well... there wasa company making them in England up to the 1970's...
Karen Larsdatter’s Material Culture Linkspages are often a valuable resource for researching medieval material culture, and she has a lot of...
The Archaeological Exploration of Sardis
Bottle, Pilgrim
