A Birka pouch is a replica Viking-Age belt pouch decorated with metal mounts, modelled after archaeological finds associated with the trading centre of Birka in Sweden. As noted by Sippe Guntursson, what most people refer to as a a Birka Pouch is taken from the remains of a pouch and its associated bronze mounts found at  Rösta, Jämtland. However similar strap mounts and the star formed mount have been found across multiple graves at Birka.

In this project, I am making a leather box for a friend of mine.

The box design I decided to use has a joined lid so was to be made out of a single piece of leather. The final dimensions were to be 8″”x5″”x2″”. The pattern for it looks like this

I cut the basic shape out but left the corners in for the places that would be stitched together, the grey areas on the pattern. These I cut with V gouge instead of a knife so that I had a mitred edge to work with.