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Post by longtrail on Sept 12, 2008 9:54:41 GMT -5
Well it was a lamp shade at one point. I go to second hand stores, buy old lampshades, cut the material or paper shade away from the frame, which gives me the pattern for the rawhide I am going to cut to fit. Paint the rawhide, lace it on the frame and WALA!! Not sure what went wrong with this one that it got turned into a wall haning, I think when I wrapped it around the frame and went to lace it, the design did not match. I was telling someone about my lampshades once and they said the way they made them was to have someone weld them a real heavy duty lampshade frame, lace the wet rawhide on said frame and paint it after it dried IF it didn warp the frame. Ok...............
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Post by joanne2 on Sept 12, 2008 10:10:07 GMT -5
Most of the rawhides that I have hanging in my smokehouse won't shrink by much at all. Hmm. LOL.. I can go into the lampshade business! Be a good idea to do the painting after it the rawhide is stitched to the frame, me thinks.. could be wrong.. I have been known to be wrong on occasion ..hmm. Will have to try this.. been wanting to try a model tipi on of these days as well..hmm.. thanks for the idears LT! PS... NICE PAINTING WORK BTW, very pretty horse and other pattern.. you're really talented at that!
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Post by longtrail on Sept 12, 2008 14:11:04 GMT -5
Actually I can't draw animals or people worth a crap. Always look like a bad cartoon. Trees, houses, etc,bugs, florwers etc. really good at that. Even done a few decent fake inspection vehicles stickers in my day with my pens and colored pencils. Glad we do't have any of that sillybutt crap inspection laws out here. Not yet anyway.
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