Leather aprons

A few years ago (like 2016?) I needed an apron when blacksmithing. Suddenly an opportunity came - but with som cost in terms of labour.

Moose skin apron

An apron for hot works should be a bit fire resistant. Wool or leather works well.

I ordered quite a lot of leather and the company I ordered from threw in a quite bad skin for free. It was the skin of half a moose, but it was so extremely thin, and as many skins from moose it had a few dozen small holes from insects.
It was also dry as parchment.

Using it for an apron required a few days of smearing the skin with grease everytime I passed it. That's quite a lot of grease, but it was needed to make the skin soft enough to be able to cope with the strain in the workshop.

After I was more or less satisfied with the softness of the skin I made it into an apron. The skin was EXTREMELY thin so I had to sew the edges in for them not to tear.

For straps I used linnen since I didn't trust the thin leather.

Other aprons

Since this apron two more leather apron has been produced at this home, and both in quite a lot thicker leather.

These two aprons were made from an old sofa.