I know that leather can be hardened enough that it was sometimes used as armour. But can it still be cut apart with a knife?
I'm planning a fantasy series that includes a culture of tribal barbarians. One of the main characters is a member of one of these tribes, who has been captured and enslaved by another tribe.
Collars have historically been used to identify slaves. I thought that instead of iron these tribesmen would use ones made of hardened leather, fastened in place with a rivet, since they don't exactly have metal growing on trees.
But how secure is that? If a runaway can just cut the collar off with relative easy there doesn't seem to be much point. Should I just go with iron?
I'm planning a fantasy series that includes a culture of tribal barbarians. One of the main characters is a member of one of these tribes, who has been captured and enslaved by another tribe.
Collars have historically been used to identify slaves. I thought that instead of iron these tribesmen would use ones made of hardened leather, fastened in place with a rivet, since they don't exactly have metal growing on trees.
But how secure is that? If a runaway can just cut the collar off with relative easy there doesn't seem to be much point. Should I just go with iron?