![]() ![]() These were drawn in my large sketchbook, then transferred to heavy paper and cut out. These were a full size outline/projection of the wooden core's front/back, side, top, and bottom. There were three things I needed (aside from an overall plan) to get started on making the quiver. There are several things I feel could be improved if/when I make another, which I will discuss later. This quiver has the special significance to me of being the first thing I made completely in my new studio/workshops. I've corrected the color a bit on some of them, and plan on taking new photos of the finished quiver soon. My apologies for the quality of these photos, I took them with my cellphone and did not realize how fuzzy and washed out they were. When I finally did start on the quiver, I tried to document my progress by taking pictures at various stages. His reply was very helpful and I made a lot more progress with my plans, but I did not have time to start on a new project since classes and buying a house was taking up a lot of my time. MacPherson saying that I was trying to figure out how to make one, shared some of my ideas and things I was not sure about. While poking around online I also found a picture of a very nice looking reproduction of a quiver made by Robert MacPherson. ![]() I also renewed my search online for other museum photos of this style of quiver and found at least one more, probably from somewhere in Germany, and a bit earlier than the one at the Higgins Armory. I spent a lot of time with my notes and drawings of the quiver at the Higgins Armory, and working in a sketchbook that was large enough to draw the quiver at full size, started drawing up various ideas of how I might build one of these quivers. ![]() Having seen a quiver firsthand (and I'm sure that a few more years of experience with making things helped too) my interest and confidence for this project was renewed. (not as many as i remembered, but now I feel a need to go back and check some details), as detailed as we could get through the glass of the display case - I was very happy that it was a walk-around case in the middle of the room, and I sat there for an hour or so taking notes and estimating measurements in my sketchbook (maybe I'll scan and post those too). and there one of the first things we wondered across on the ground floor, in a glass case with a crossbow and cranequin, was a quiver for crossbow bolts from Austria dated to the late 15th to early 16th century. I had stopped thinking about making a quiver because a couple years earlier I had made an otter skin hunting bag which just happened to be deep enough to hold my crossbow bolts - then one weekend I was in the Boston area for a weekend while visiting with my in-laws and we found out about a Western Martial Arts demonstration at the Higgins Armory Museum in Worcester, Massachusetts so my wife and I decided to go to that since she had never been there before and I had only been there once over ten years before. with so little information to work from, I decided to focus on other projects for a while until I found out something more.įast forward four or so years to sometime in 2008. During my searches online for information about the type of quiver I wanted to make (of which I knew very little to begin with, other than the general shape) I learned that they often were made like some kind of wooden box with a leather or fur covering. I started by combing through art from the period, but soon found that there are very few crossbow quivers shown in central/northern European art from the period I was interested in, and the few I did find (I'll try to remember to add them to this page in a section for documentation if I find them again) were allegorical subjects and the designs looked a little fantastical (as do many details of medieval and renaissance allegorical art). Several years ago I commissioned David Watson of New World Arbalest to build me a crossbow of the sort that was used used for hunting in Bavaria in the 16th century, and since then had wanted to build a quiver to go with it. Based on and inspired by crossbow quivers used in Germany and Austria in the 14th to 16th centuries.
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