What are the common (and not-so-common) ways to wrap a sword hilt that you know of?
I was pondering how much I hate wire-wrapped hilts (they just feel wrong to me, like chewing tinfoil or rubbing cottonballs), when I remembered a mention in a Jack Whyte book about using shark skin, which was supposed to keep its grip, even when slick with blood, and then I recalled this velvet-wrapped beauty I saw in the Bayerisches Armeemuseum in Ingolstadt, Germany labelled 'München um 1600"STANTLER ME FECIT"'
So now I'm curious as to what other materials and techniques were used for grips.
I also want to know if "ME FECIT" means in German what it looks like in English.
I was pondering how much I hate wire-wrapped hilts (they just feel wrong to me, like chewing tinfoil or rubbing cottonballs), when I remembered a mention in a Jack Whyte book about using shark skin, which was supposed to keep its grip, even when slick with blood, and then I recalled this velvet-wrapped beauty I saw in the Bayerisches Armeemuseum in Ingolstadt, Germany labelled 'München um 1600"STANTLER ME FECIT"'
So now I'm curious as to what other materials and techniques were used for grips.
I also want to know if "ME FECIT" means in German what it looks like in English.