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[Yvsa]

It is durable, won't rot, and can handle body or shower moisture.

And when the artificial sinew starts to come apart a simple rubbing with the beeswax/parrifin blocks that one can get at any fabric shop or sewing center will bring it back to new condition.

I would have to stay and work with anyone who can take and make deer sinew strands. I've tried and failed.

I've cut sinew off of leg muscles of deer and dried it. The tendon from the legs and backstrap are hell to try and work with for me.

One would have to suitably protect natural sinew to maintain its integrity holding a sewn sheath together.

The sinew was greatly protected by the material it sewed. Real braintanned deer or elk skin is more porous, thicker, and softer than commercially tanned skins. The sinew wound up embedded in the material and wasn't subjected to much wear in and of itself.
On the other hand before the advent of the horse when men went on a hunting or war party material for moccasins was always taken along.
When you know how to make a moccasin it doesn't take long at all to cut them out and sew them together.
Moccasin tops were often recycled as the soles wore out first and often.

All you need to know about Sinew.

 

[Josh Muller]

scratch what i said earlier. when i checked it before, he didnt have photo links up (or i didnt notice them). seeing them in finished form, i can see a couple that i wanted to make myself.