05-06-2006, 04:16 AM
Here's one more thing to consider: Making leather is time consuming, nasty work requiring special tools, skills and location to do sucessfully. I can't see it being any "easier" than weaving.
Quote o\' the moment:"Being stabbed in the stomach with a pugio would be rather like being disembowelled with a small shovel."
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