{"id":54516,"date":"2012-03-26T22:09:22","date_gmt":"2012-03-27T03:09:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/?p=54516"},"modified":"2012-03-26T22:09:31","modified_gmt":"2012-03-27T03:09:31","slug":"leather-worker-finishes-creating-clothing-and-armour-for-the-hobbit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2012\/03\/26\/54516-leather-worker-finishes-creating-clothing-and-armour-for-the-hobbit\/","title":{"rendered":"Leather worker finishes creating clothing and armour for The Hobbit."},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\">From <a title=\"http:\/\/www.starcanterbury.co.nz\/news\/lips-sealed-on-weta-venture\/1316507\/\" href=\"http:\/\/www.starcanterbury.co.nz\/news\/lips-sealed-on-weta-venture\/1316507\/\">The Star<\/a>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2012\/03\/26\/54516-leather-worker-finishes-creating-clothing-and-armour-for-the-hobbit\/lips-sealed-on-weta-venture\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-54520\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-54520 no-lazyload\" title=\"Fiona Thomson Lips sealed on Weta venture\" src=\"http:\/\/www-images.theonering.org\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Lips-sealed-on-Weta-venture-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"181\" height=\"213\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Just back from a &#8216;top secret&#8217; assignment with <em>Wellington Weta Workshops<\/em>, Fiona Thomson is happy to be back behind her work bench in her Glenview shop.<\/p>\n<p>The In Hide Leatherworks owner is still excited at being part of the production of <em>The Hobbit<\/em> movie but everything she knows about the film and its wardrobe must be a secret till the official release in December.<\/p>\n<p>All she will say about her four months stint in Wellywood is that she was involved in creating clothing and armour.<\/p>\n<p>More after the break&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\nBack in Hamilton and her Glenview Mall premises, Fiona returns to a business which she has steered for eight years. The shoe repair side has a new lease of life and is now manned by expatriate Christchurch cobbler Merv Arneson.<\/p>\n<p>Fiona has spent more than 30 years working with leather and nowadays concentrates on belts, wallets, purses, bags for anything and everything, sheaths, watch straps and satchels.<\/p>\n<p>As the rider of an 1100cc Moto Guzzi, she has a special interest in repairing motorcycle riders&#8217; clothing.<\/p>\n<p>However, she can turn her experienced hands to custom made leatherware for all uses and occasions.<\/p>\n<p>Fiona has a special love for belts. She says a well-made belt will last. She recalls a client who brought in a belt for reconditioning. She says he had worn it for 42 years and it went back looking like new.<\/p>\n<p>Born in Raglan, Fiona lived in Australia, and mainly Tasmania, before returning &#8216;home&#8217; eight years ago &#8216;partly for family and also because the Glenview Mall workshop was available&#8217;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From The Star: Just back from a &#8216;top secret&#8217; assignment with Wellington Weta Workshops, Fiona Thomson is happy&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[100,4,99,495,496,334],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-production-costume","category-hobbit-movie","category-lotr-production","category-miscellaneous","category-production","category-hobbit-rumors"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-ebi","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54516"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54516\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54540,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54516\/revisions\/54540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}