So uh. I have that gold fabric/leather paint now. And some gloves sitting around that I never wore. And I got the itch to make things.
Uhm. Enjoy?
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now with the knowledge of astarion repping 23 STR in your bg3 playthrough, all i can imagine is him carrying around du drow bridal style loool
He stubbed his toe.
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And another pair of gloves. I'm quite pleased with these ones.
Back to the 1760's Diderot pattern cuff shape this time, and I wanted to try adding some decoration, so I painted art nouveau swirlies around the cuffs using leather dye. (Which is of course not historically accurate, but art nouveau and mid 18th century menswear go together so, so well.)
My inspiration was a motif from an 1898 book, which I found on pinterest, and I re-drew it a few times until I had a version that I liked and that fit the glove.
I wasn't sure how to go about transferring the design accurately to the leather, so I ended up making a stencil and tracing it using a very fine tipped pen, then colouring it in with the dye. The dye was very easy to paint with, but putting it in a little dish made it dry out and thicken extremely fast, which was not so good. For the second glove I put the dye in a porcelain thimble, which was better, but next time I'll try to find something even smaller with even less exposed surface area to put the dye in.
Or I could perhaps try leather paint instead.
I'll have to hold off on wearing these until I've gotten some sort of finishing coating to protect the dye, because it's unfortunately smudged a bit from handling. I did do a sample specifically to test for this and it didn't smudge, but in the sewing up process the gloves got touched quite a bit more than the sample, alas. And it may be partly due to the aforementioned drying out and thickening, which left more dye on the surface.
The leather is lambskin from ItalianSkins on etsy, and they're sewn up using silk yarn that my mother gave me. (With a regular needle again, because the only leather needles I have are too big.)
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So I uh, did it again? A friend called this a Celestial design, so that's what they are now. My Celestial Gloves.
Paint is Jacquard Lumiere Metallic paint in the color 552 Bright Gold! Gloves are a pair that I probably got at a thrift store years ago??
Enjoy! I hope y'all like this pair as much as you liked the last one! :)
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To explain why SH0-T0 sometimes displays humanlike intelligence and agency and other times he's just a funny robot; he has the enviable ability to turn off some of his higher AI functions during work hours, operating more or less on autopilot. Which has ups and downs as shown here.
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