Pouch with Ground Hog Hair Flap

This complete set features pouch, horn and knife. 

The leather pouch has a flap that is made of a groundhog hide. 

Both the knife and the horn are originals. 

The horn has been repaired with a leather covering.

SOLD!

Quilled Pouch

This pouch has quillwork on the flap. 

Made from brain tanned leather. 

Red horsehair decorative cones have been added.

Small Hunting Pouch & Horn Set

This small cloth pouch is made from striped ticking fabric. 

The complete set features an original horn with repairs. 

The pouch has a leather flap and a handwoven strap.
SOLD!

The small patch knife that looks like it has peeled a "lot of taters."

 All in all a nice set.

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Images photographed at the 2012 CLA Show by Jan Riser.

Frankie SIlvers Pouch for Bobby Denton

Bobby talked to me at the CLA meeting in Lexington about making him a pouch that would depicted the hanging of Frankie Silvers, a young woman who was hanged for the murder of her husband Charlie in Morganton, North Carolina, on July 12, 1833. Bobby, being from Morganton has grown up with the legend about the murder and Frankie Silvers, the first woman hanged in the state. 

After several phone conversations and letters, this is the pouch that I made for Bobby.

 The Frankie Silvers story has been told in countless newspaper and magazine articles, plays and documentaries and even in a ballad or two. It continues to hold the imagination of many today as it has for almost two hundred years.

Here’s how the story goes....Frankie, suspecting Charlie of infidelity with another man’s wife, killed Charlie in a fit of jealous rage three days before Christmas 1831. She decided to exact her revenge as he lay sleeping on the floor of their cabin. Frankie got an axe and then struck Charlie's in the head. The first strike, however, did not immediately kill him and he thrashed around the house mortally wounded. Frankie hid under their bed, eventually coming out when she heard his body fall to the floor. She took another swing with the axe severing Charlie’s head. With the help of some of her family, Frankie attempted to conceal the evidence of the murder by chopping the body into pieces and burning them in the cabin's fireplace. The story was that Charlie had gone hunting and had not returned.

A search of the frozen river and surrounding countryside did not locate Charlie. A thorough investigation of the home and fireplace area by a neighbor revealed bits and pieces of charred bone and an uncommon amount of grease. A further search dried blood under the wooden floor.

Frankie was charged with the murder, arrested, tried, convicted, and sentenced to die by hanging. After a failed appeal to the North Carolina Supreme Court, she broke out of jail with the help of her family. After a few days on the run, she was caught and returned to prison. Her execution was set for July 12, 1833.

When the day arrived, she was led to the scaffold. The sheriff asked if she had anything she wanted to say. Before she could answer, her father yelled, "Die with it in ye, Frankie!" The noose was then placed around her neck, and FRankie Silvers became the first woman to be hanged in North Carolina. This pouch depicts the hanging.

ENJOY ALL HALLOW'S EVE.

All dressed up for the Masked Ball.

TWO MORE STUDENTS WIN AT DIXON'S

CONGRATULATIONS TO YOU BOTH!

 Karen Pease & Chuck Brownewell Ribbon winners!!!!!! 

Both of these great students took my pouch workshop at Conner Prairie. 

It was a pleasure having you both in the class.

Karen Pease won with her pouch.

Chuck Brownewell won a ribbon with a pouch and Horn combo set.

I believe that brings to eight the number of students 

who have have won ribbons at Dixon's 

after taking my pouch class

If you haven't signed up for the workshop, don't delay. 
Classes fill up rapidly.
The workshop is October 6-12th.
Click on the link below to find out more about the classes offered and how to register.
http://www.connerprairie.org/Learn-And-Do/Programs/Arts-and-Arms-Making-Workshop.aspx

POKER ETCHED FLAP ON THIS POUCH

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Southern Pouch & Banded Horn Set

Ron Vail and I decided to combine our talents on this one!
 Having both been recognized as  top traditional craftsmen in America by
Early American Life magazine we thought, "let's do one together!"

This fine Southern pouch & horn set has a nice aged look. It is is one of those nice, plain early pouch sets that seems the more you look at it, the more character and charm it has. Banded Horn is hand carved to give the appearance of a turned horn of the period. I made the Pouch out of rough-out tanned cowhide and hand sewed it with waxed linen thread, Edge and top of flap has been hand pinked. Punched out design on flap add a home made look. Front of pouch bellows is sewn from three prieces of leather. Pouch is about 11" high and 10 1/2" wide. It has an inside pocket sewn to the back. Strap adjust with a brass buckle.

The handmade banded horn by Ron measures about 14 1/2" around the outside curve with a 2 3/4" diameter base. He hand filed five hand rings around it to replicate a turned southern banded horn. The front strap ring is connected to the horn with a copper band. Both stopper and base plug are hand carved.

SOLD

Two students who took my pouch making Workshop

Jeff Bibb & MaryEllen Pratt
 Both are doing fine work.
Jeff is making southern Appalacian pouches.
 MaryEllen is making pouches to compliment her husband Ian's fine rifleguns.
The Pouch making workshop is taught at Conner Prairie in October
During their Arms Making workshop.
Full information is posted below in another post. 
 

LOS ANGELES TIMES Article about my craft.

LOS ANGELES TIMES Article about my craft.

Some time back John Balzar, a Los Angeles Times staff writer, contacted the folks at the Kalamazoo Living History Show about writing an article on the art & craft of the American frontier and artists who practicing those crafts. Balzar then contacted me and we met at the show. Balzar also talked to several other artists about our craft that weekend. If you follow this link you can read that story.  http://articles.latimes.com/2006/apr/09/entertainment/ca-craft9

This article is copyrighted by the Los Angeles Times.

THREE HORSEMEN FRAKTUR

Ink and watercolor fraktur painting done on the inside of an antiqued book cover

SOLD

LEATHER ARTIST PORTFOLIO

St. Michael Pouch

This pouch features St. Michael slaying the Dragon 

on the pouch flap. the design has been "Poker etched"

 burnt in the leather with a hot iron.

Nice size pouch. Flap and pouch body has short fringe as a welt.

Bill Ruggie Pouch

Bill Ruggie sent me the wonderful horn

shown in the above photo and asked me

to make him a pouch that would go with it.

This is the finished pouch.

The scroll & leaf work on the pouch

matches the scrolls and leaf designs on the horn.

The pouch has a deer hair flap.

HAPPY THANKSGIVING!

Curtain Lace Pouch with Leather Flap

 

Note that the strap has also been made from lace curtain material.

This pouch is made from an old lace curtain
that has been lined with linen fabric for strength. 

It also has a leather flap that has been "Poker etched" to show
an image of the King of England.

Old pouch Friday: Heart Shaped Pouch

Old Pouch Friday: Scalloped Flap with White Beads

Old Pouch Friday: Classic 64 square in pouch

This Rev War pouch is sized based on the classic 64 square inch pattern.
Colonial pouches were usually made no more than 8 inches by 8 inches.
(64 square inches).
It has a red wool binding on the flap which is held closed by a button.

I have been named one of the top traditional craftsmen in America

HERE IS A NEWS RELEASE

ON MY BEING NAMED A TOP CRAFTSMAN

Ken Scott selected as one of the top

200 traditional craftsmen in America 

by Early American Life Magazine.

Judges expert in museum-quality antiques

and fine, high-end reproductions recognize 

Scott’s art and craft to be some of the finest available.

Scott’s work was named in two categories,

Leather and Painted, Framed art.

The Directory of Traditional American Crafts is an honor bestowed on a handful of artisans who work in traditional media, styles, and crafts. This is the second time that he has been named one of the Top 200 Traditional Craftsmen in America by the magazine. The directory is also a buying guide, presenting a selection of the best historically informed handwork in America. His work can be seen in the August, 2011, issue.

An artist who has been selected for the Directory has had his or her work thoroughly evaluated by a panel of experts. Scott’s craft was selected from among hundreds of entries nationwide. His leather hunting pouches and American frontier fraktur paintings were rated for their quality workmanship, fidelity to period design and construction techniques by judges expert in museum-quality antiques and fine, high-end reproductions. Because Directory artists so accurately replicate the styles and techniques of historic work, they might be mistaken for antiques. To assure this high-quality work is appreciated for the true quality of its modern craftsmanship, the Directory requires all work to be hallmarked.

Scott’s work is well recognized and is owned by collectors and historical reenactors around the world. He made the shooting bag for Billie Bob Thornton (Davey Crockett) for the movie, The Alamo, as well as provided some other props that were used in the movie. Scott’s work has also been featured in videos, tv documentaries and numerous times in magazines and on their covers—Muzzle Blasts, Muzzleloader, as well as in the Dixie Gunworks Black Powder Annual and The Book of Buckskinning. 

Scott’s work can be seen on his website as well as his blogs.

Website: www.kenscottpouches.com

Blog: www.kenscottpouches.blogspot.com

Blog: www.americanfrontierart.blogspot.com

Also search: 

Google/Images for Ken Scott Pouches

Google/Images for Ken Scott Fraktur

Scott can be reached by email at: kenscottart@att.net

Friends

Ken Scott, Roger Cooper, Jim Dresslar & Ron Vail

at Jim's Place.

Old Pouch Friday: Heart Shaped Pouch

Here is a nice representation of a Heart Shaped Pouch made from calfskin. It is accompanied by an original horn. You can see good wear and repairs on the edge of the curved flap and along the stitching near the button closure. Note how the priming horn is hung from a leather thong. I hang most of the priming horns that I attach to a pouch in this manner. Pouch also features small game straps.

Old Pouch Friday: Deerskin Pouch with Leather Oak Leaf Appliqoe