Spur leather
Sporn leather , Sporleder or tension leather described the leather collar with which a rider to spur strapped to the boot or on foot, if that was not already firmly fixed to the riding boots (stop spores).
In his Economic-Technological Encyclopedia , published in 1832, Johann Georg Krünitz describes the spur leather that was in use at the time. There were wide and narrow designs. The larger ones were four inches wide (about 10 centimeters) and covered the top of the foot . They were used in riding boots, gauntlet boots or the large riding boots, so-called cannons, to which the pound spurs were usually attached, which required a broad and firm leather to hold on to. Even earlier they were on the spurs of heavy riders ( cuirassiers ). However, by the time the hussar spurs had been introduced into many armies and footwear had changed; Instead of the large riding boots over the trousers, they now wore miniature boots under the trousers.
On the sides were the spur straps (spur straps) with which the leather was strapped to the boot. Gallantry spurs, fashion spurs, and patent spurs only had narrow straps, about an inch wide. There were three straps each: the ankle strap or sole strap that passed under the foot, the buckle strap with the buckle and the tension strap with which the strap was tautly attached to the foot. The lashing strap was the longest, at the end it had several holes for adjusting the width, into each of which the buckle tongue was inserted. On the side of the spur leather was a small strap with which the spur was attached to the buckle.
In his description of the shoemaker's profession in 1769, Daniel Gottfried Schreber describes that the sport leather, here as part of the riding boot, should be cut from the thinner part of the skin. Under sport leather one understands “in general any such piece of leather which is sewn onto another, it may come into the boot either by heart or inside; but this must actually surround the heel of the shaft, end at the front of the shoe and either more or less rise above the spur holder […], that is, up to six or eight inches ”(about 15 to 20 centimeters).
Individual evidence
- ^ A b [1] Johann Georg Krünitz: Economic-Technological Encyclopedia, or general system of state, town, house and agriculture, and the history of art. Paulische Buchhandlung, Berlin 1832, pp. 653, 667, 678–679, keywords “spur,” “spur leather”, “spur belt”.
- ^ [2] Johann Gottfried Schreber: Schauplatz der Künste und Handwerke, or a complete description of the same […] . Johann Jacob Kantor, Leipzig and Königsberg 1769, p. 62.