Leather Lamellar

There's a really cool looking lamellar styled vest I've seen that uses hour glass shaped leather plates. It's a spin on traditional lamellar that uses a lighter weight leather without any metal plates or scales. The vest I will attempt will have slightly thicker leather so that it can be hardened, and the plates will overlap more to increase the average thickness to about 1/4 inch. Here's the start of the bottom row of scales that will be stitched to a suede backing and the row above. If this turns out well I might try a different version with even thicker lames!