Need help for the decoration !
Can anyone find me some patterns or motifs for my newly finished Turkish horn bow.
Here is a bow been covered with some kind of snake skin.... The skin is pure white and no pattern, the seller told me it is from South America... And they only got two pieces.
I'd like to have some simple design and will bring it to a expert to do the job...
By the way, is there any places where I can buy some more snake skins like this? Where can I get ?
Here is a bow been covered with some kind of snake skin.... The skin is pure white and no pattern, the seller told me it is from South America... And they only got two pieces.
I'd like to have some simple design and will bring it to a expert to do the job...
By the way, is there any places where I can buy some more snake skins like this? Where can I get ?
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The snake skin is litle limited for your art work, because skin have own strukture and you must trust this ... Most simple way is use thin goat skin(or like erly turks wrotw from horse nape ). You can paint what you vant.
Very interesting skins, look almost artificially embossed rather than natural snake. There are a few examples of decorations in my book, but Dusan is right, it would be very difficult even to paint the line trimmings due to the strong texture. Since the skins are not trad. Turkish anyway, I'd try to enhance the texture rather than hide it, perhaps by adding random speckle of gold or something like that.
Adam
Adam
Could you try replicating the color pattern from the scales of an actual snake (from a different species that the one that produced your snakeskin, that is)?
I have seen knife sheaths covered in skin with scales or knobs where they were lacquered with a different coloured lacquer and polished down until the white tips of the scales showed through. This reduced the thickness of the lacquer to a manageable level, but I am not sure it would work on a bow.
Some Turkish bows had very simple linear designs along the edges that might work.
If you had the time you could treat the scales like a mosaic and colour each one differently to produce a pattern.
Some Turkish bows had very simple linear designs along the edges that might work.
If you had the time you could treat the scales like a mosaic and colour each one differently to produce a pattern.
The same as beautiful sculptures! I would like to see more details.
There is a dealer 'YK' in HK who is quite good. But you need to persuade them to supply small quantities. Do you only want white? I might have some stock of natural patterns.yokhua wrote:
By the way, is there any places where I can buy some more snake skins like this? Where can I get ?
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