A Gemshorn Bag
My husband has an actual gemshorn made from the horn of a cow - it's a lovely instrument and sounds like a very soft, very deep recorder. In period, the gemshorn would have been made from actual European Ibex horn (which is now extinct). These days gemshorns are still made in (and exported from) Europe but common cow horn is used as a substitute.
Previous to this bag, the gemshorn was kept in a bit of knit sock which was not at all a fitting receptical for such a cool instrument. One day in late July, as I walked by the gemshorn in it's stretch-knit bag for about the tenth time, I decided to make a bag for it. I dug through my scraps of wool that I had kept with me through the move and laid out a pattern for a dragon, based on memory, as my library was still packed up as well.
The result is this bag, which also has my husband's name embroidered on the back of it. The button is made from a bit of wool covered in a layer of fulled wool and then covered again in detatched buttonhole stitch and secured to the bag by a shank of the same thread.
I originally started out trying to flavor this design with Celtic inspiration but it went more towards a Rus kind of overtone. I keep wanting to put my husband in Rus clothing so this is perhaps why the bag isn't really all that Celtic.
The same methods of construction are used as with previous projects; fulled wool, cotton perl, and beads.