Shortly after I displayed my personal bag, my apprentice-brother expressed interest in one of his own.
He already has examples of all the historical octopi I could find, so I found some clip art that would lend itself well to embroidery. Also found some examples of other extant bag handles and traced out a couple different ones than I had done before. Both bags in this post are made from moose antler, done both at the same time. For the general process on both of these, see my original post - not much has changed, aside from refining how I do the straps.
This one is the reign pouch for Duchess Anne FitzRichard. The roses are from her heraldry, and the crochet snowflake was made by Lena Webster. I kept the weaving simple and narrow to use it in concert with the rabbit fur, since space in the composition was tight. Also swapped to a fingerloop braid for the top trim instead of a lucet cord - much faster and saved a lot of trouble for my fingers.
In both cases, I figured out that the best way to do the straps was to keep the pattern threads, rather than the edge threads, for the entire strap. The twist inherent in the round weaving turns the basic starting diagonal patterns into something considerably more interesting looking than they actually are.
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