The leather is cured a couple of different ways. The leather that is cured for the tents is less cured, less worked. The leather that clothing is made from is soft. Depending on the animal used it can be lighter color, or darker. Sometimes pieces of leather from different animals are pieced together to make a patterned piece of clothing.
T here is also a way of making the light colored leather very pale and thin, very soft.
When a woman is to become handfasted, she begins work on her hand fasting outfit. Mine was beautiful. I made a design with dye and the colored beads that we make from tiny pieces of bone, shaped and polished. Mar. L eather jerkins are made, with a kind of low rounded neck. They are laced together on the sides underneath the arms.