I grew up going to TRF and worked there as a 'boothy' in my late teens back in the 90's. Still travel there from time to time.
I can tell you for absolute fact that the most common motifs on leather armors and bags and such are: Celtic knots, the Moorcock 'Chaos star', and (I lump these all together) Baphotmet like ram and goat heads, skulls, Bulls, pentagrams sonnerands and other "badass brootal heavy metal" type motifs.
And, of late unfortunately, the next most popular motif is fucking steampunk gear garbage which seams to have overtaken the Wiccan/goth pentacles, alchemical/astrological symbols, trees of life designs and such.
(If you doubt me, I will go to the TRF vendors page in a bit and link you to the online storefronts.)
*Edit: to clarify when I mentioned DnD and fantasy, I mean to indicate a general group of interest groups with interests including: DnD, fantasy fiction such as Moorcock and Jordan and movies, speed metal such as Blind Guardian or Iced Earth, Tolkien, renfaires, the SCA, larps, etc. The kind of stuff parodied by that cartoon about the metal band from Cartoon Network. Please note that much of the examples are biased towards the late 90's to turn of the century, so sound outdated probably.
I grew up going to TRF and worked there as a 'boothy' in my late teens back in the 90's. Still travel there from time to time.
I can tell you for absolute fact that the most common motifs on leather armors and bags and such are: Celtic knots, the Moorcock 'Chaos star', and (I lump these all together) Baphotmet like ram and goat heads, skulls, Bulls, pentagrams sonnerands and other "badass brootal heavy metal" type motifs.
And, of late unfortunately, the next most popular motif is fucking steampunk gear garbage which seams to have overtaken the Wiccan/goth pentacles, alchemical/astrological symbols, trees of life designs and such.
(If you doubt me, I will go to the TRF vendors page in a bit and link you to the online storefronts.)
*Edit: to clarify when I mentioned DnD and fantasy, I mean to indicate a general group of interest groups with interests including: DnD, fantasy fiction such as Moorcock and Jordan and movies, speed metal such as Blind Guardian or Iced Earth, Tolkien, renfaires, the SCA, larps, etc. Please note that much of the examples are biased towards the late 90's to turn of the century, so sound outdated probably.
I grew up going to TRF and worked there as a 'boothy' in my late teens back in the 90's. Still travel there from time to time.
I can tell you for absolute fact that the most common motifs on leather armors and bags and such are: Celtic knots, the Moorcock 'Chaos star', and (I lump these all together) Baphotmet like ram and goat heads, skulls, Bulls, pentagrams sonnerands and other "badass brootal heavy metal" type motifs.
And, of late unfortunately, the next most popular motif is fucking steampunk gear garbage which seams to have overtaken the Wiccan/goth pentacles, alchemical/astrological symbols, trees of life designs and such.
(If you doubt me, I will go to the TRF vendors page in a bit and link you to the online storefronts.)
I grew up going to TRF and worked there as a 'boothy' in my late teens back in the 90's. Still travel there from time to time.
I can tell you for absolute fact that the most common motifs on leather armors and bags and such are: Celtic knots, the Moorcock 'Chaos star', and (I lump these all together) Baphotmet like ram and goat heads, skulls, Bulls, pentagrams sonnerands and other "badass brootal heavy metal" type motifs. And, of late unfortunately, the next most popular motif is fucking steampunk gear garbage :/
(If you doubt me, I will go to the TRF vendors page in a bit and link you to the online storefronts.)