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Some fun late 15th century styled leatherwork sequence, shown on approximately the same ~70*70mm segment of the 490mm long scabbard.
From left to right, top to bottom:
1, draw the lines, obviously. There's no need to transfer any patterns, you can just draw on the leather after it's secured in place. Keep the leather dry-ish until this point, and comfortably moist for steps 2-4.
2, cut the lines. I'm using a ceramic bladed swivel knife, but there are several other options as well.
3, heat up an awl, stab it into the middle petal at an angle, and gently lift off the leather. Getting just the right amount of heat takes some practice, and even then it will almost certainly discolor the leather, so don't necessarily do this on something that'll be dyed a light colour. This scabbard will be black, so no problems there.
4, take a small diameter tube and make a background tool out of it. By "small" I mean under a milimeter inner diameter. Add a grip or wrap it in tape, anything to make it at least somewhat comfortable, because the next step is pressing down on that tube about a million times.

The end result is pretty close to a cutlery case made by Hans Sumersperger for Emperor Maximilian at the very end of the 15th century. The vines are quite low relief, with the flowers raised.

Description
Some fun late 15th century styled leatherwork sequence, shown on approximately the same ~70*70mm segment of the 490mm long scabbard.
From left to right, top to bottom:
1, draw the lines, obviously. There's no need to transfer any patterns, you can just draw on the leather after it's secured in place. Keep the leather dry-ish until this point, and comfortably moist for steps 2-4.
2, cut the lines. I'm using a ceramic bladed swivel knife, but there are several other options as well.
3, heat up an awl, stab it into the middle petal at an angle, and gently lift off the leather. Getting just the right amount of heat takes some practice, and even then it will almost certainly discolor the leather, so don't necessarily do this on something that'll be dyed a light colour. This scabbard will be black, so no problems there.
4, take a small diameter tube and make a background tool out of it. By "small" I mean under a milimeter inner diameter. Add a grip or wrap it in tape, anything to make it at least somewhat comfortable, because the next step is pressing down on that tube about a million times.

The end result is pretty close to a cutlery case made by Hans Sumersperger for Emperor Maximilian at the very end of the 15th century. The vines are quite low relief, with the flowers raised.