Swiss Bread Bag Haversack Modification

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Harper
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Swiss Bread Bag Haversack Modification

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You can find these on line pretty cheap:



Obviously, we would use sinew.
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Re: Swiss Bread Bag Haversack Modification

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...or leather thongs, or good hempen cordage. :P
Good find.
Many times bags like this surface on the surplus circuit. Foreign militaries seem more willing to use natural materials than our own does. I've got a Chinese one that uses cool wooden toggles.
Probably in earlier periods these would have been "forage bags", which you fill with whatever you can gather from the neighboring populace.
A good project.
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