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Post by randychurch on May 3, 2012 6:13:23 GMT -7
I'm developing an interest in early saddlebags such as this one and also over the belt bags. My question, after looking at everyone I can find online is, how do you access the inside? I can't find any good picture showing access. I'm sure it is there and I'm overlooking it. Thanks for your time.....Randy Attachments:
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Post by Chuck Burrows on May 3, 2012 9:01:10 GMT -7
Randy - they are a type of slit (sometimes split) pouch or in the larger sizes a market wallet. The opening can be along one edge (as the one you pictured appears to be?) or in the center like these two - yours could also be centered like these but on the back side,   Here's the basic plans for such bags... www.manuellisaparty.com/articles/pfd's/Market%20Wallet%20Plans.pdf |
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Post by randychurch on May 3, 2012 10:53:22 GMT -7
Hey Chuck, hope you are well.
Thanks for the info and pics and especially the link. Looks like tons of info there....That makes sense now, a slit along the side. Might have to do one....
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Post by Rod on May 3, 2012 19:10:44 GMT -7
"My load to Fort Union was not very encumbering; my old saddle bags, made of a yard of brown muslin, sewed at both ends with a slit in the middle, containing two red flannel shirts, pretty well worn, and one check shirt, and one old white 3-point blanket, were about all I had brought to Fort Union; my tin pan and cup I left behind. I should have been ashamed to be caught there in my skin suit, which was also sacrificed to Fort William. Now I am at Fort Union, in the service of the great American Fur Company."
---Charles Larpenteur, Forty Years a Fur Trader
I made a couple of these from some coarsely woven hemp linen (aka Russia sheeting), one smaller, and one bigger saddlebag type. Very useful, and the hemp material is practically indestructable--got to cut the stuff, it won't tear.
Rod
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