Today’s addition to my archery gear is an arrow bag. I cut a piece of heavy leather from an old piece of armor, boiled it and pressed it flat until it dried. Then I trimmed it into a circle, drilled 1/2″ holes for the arrows and smaller holes around the edge for stitching. Rather than sew the spacer directly to my bag, I sewed it to a doubled strip of scrap linen, which I could then sew to my bag and move to another bag or quiver later if necessary:
The bag is a double layer of white cotton I’ve had kicking around for I don’t know how many years. I sewed it into a rectangle, put a casing in at the top, and put in a drawstring made from my near-infinite spool of synthetic twill tape. The ends of the drawstring are sewn to the bottom corner of the bag. The spacer is then sewn inside the bag low enough that it won’t hit the fletchings of the arrows:
I seems to work pretty well. I’ve seen some other examples where the top part of the bag is not sewn up, but so far I don’t see any real need to open that seam up. The bag works quite nicely when closed all the way up to carry the arrows. I’m not sure yet if it will work to hold them while shooting.