Molded Leather Bottle Take II - Part 3

The back turned out exactly how I wanted it. Yay! It's nice and flat, and once the top piece was trimmed out, it fit perfectly into the back folds.

The flap will fold over the top, giving the bottle a triple seam.
This will help with leaking and with wear and tear.

Here's a picture of the bottom while attached to the top,
but not yet sewn.

And a picture of the bottom on its own.
You can also see the top before it's trimmed.

So now it's time to do the decoration. For this, I take the two pieces apart and put the top piece back on the mold. I wet the leather down thoroughly, but not to soaking. Then I use dental tools to impress the design. The bog find was only impressed, not tooled. You can tell that by the fact that the leather remained intact, mostly. The exception is on the back, but a stone or stick could have cut the leather some point in the last 1000 years causing that to tear away. The design, even on the back, is still whole.

The back of the bog find bottle.
See how the design is still intact?

You can see the designs are intact.
Had they been tooled (carved), the leather
wouldn't still be intact around the decorations.

This bottle is a commission for a gentle who wanted his household badge on the top of it. I wet the bottle and set to free-handing the design. 

Trying to decide if I want to add
more details to the dragonfly.

I'll add more pictures as I add the designs to the bottle. The sides and back will be impressed as I decide what to put on it. (The owner gave me some leeway on what to put, and I'd like to try something somewhat similar to the original, but I have to practice it a bit first.)

Molded Leather Bottle, Take II - Part 1

Molded Leather Bottle, Take II - Part 2