Quiver

Very good for a first attempt.

The middle strap, on the top corner, should hang from the side of the body and the strap on the inside face should not be so far round the body. On older quivers the middle strap was longer, but, when these short quivers were developed, it was shortened to hold the top corner of the quiver closer to the body. This was more practical on horseback. Safavid paintings rarely show much of a middle strap because of the extreme shortness. In experiments I have found this structure to work very well.

Nice work! These quivers are fairly cool.

I will try to shorten the middle strap on mine too. I haven't been too happy with how it works with my longer arrows. It is perhaps something I should be able to find out myself, but I'll ask anyway: what arrow lengths were these types of short quivers normally used with? Perhaps the original arrows were slightly more point-heavy than our regular modern fieldpointed parallell shaft "trad"-arrows too, making the full quiver better balanced?

Thanks for the comments. :-)

Bede, that explains a lot. Next time I'll just put a loop there instead of a full (adjustable) strap.

Kviljo, you're probably also right about the arrows too ...!

In Turkey these quivers were used for arrows in the range of 66 cm to 75 cm. The Crimean Tatars used them with arrows up to 85 cm.

Used with long arrows, the adjustment of the straps is slightly different. The front strap can be looser in this case. Its main purpose is when riding where it becomes tighter because your legs are in a different position.