![]() ![]() ![]() 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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