{"id":2796,"date":"2015-09-11T14:49:56","date_gmt":"2015-09-11T13:49:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/msb.scommerce-mage.co.uk\/journal\/?p=2796"},"modified":"2022-05-20T11:26:10","modified_gmt":"2022-05-20T10:26:10","slug":"the-story-of-the-leather-rugby-ball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maxwellscottbags.com\/journal\/the-story-of-the-leather-rugby-ball\/","title":{"rendered":"The Story of the Leather Rugby Ball"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2848\" src=\"https:\/\/www.maxwellscottbags.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Rugby-Ball1.jpg\" alt=\"Rugby-Ball\" width=\"1920\" height=\"924\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.maxwellscottbags.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Rugby-Ball1.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.maxwellscottbags.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Rugby-Ball1-300x144.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.maxwellscottbags.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Rugby-Ball1-1024x493.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/><\/h2>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<h3>With the Rugby World Cup 2015 descending on Twickenham this Friday for what is predicted to be a momentous and gripping tournament, we look back at the history of the rugby ball and its leather roots.<\/h3>\n<p>Akin to Maxwell Scott\u2019s motives for using Italian full grain leather, the first rugby ball in 1820 was made in leather due to its sturdy and heavy-duty properties.\u00a0Born in the town of Rugby, England and invented by leather shoe makers Richard Lindon and William Gilbert, the rugby ball was created by using a pig\u2019s bladder encased in four hand stitched panels of leather. It is thought that the blown up pig\u2019s bladder gave the rugby ball its unique oval shape which it still has today. Interesting fact: Richard Lindon died of a lung disease which is thought to have been caused by the repetitious pig bladder blowing. With Lindon and Gilbert&#8217;s shops located next door to each other on the high street, they became the main suppliers of rugby balls for the local Rugby School down the road, and then the rest of the world centuries later. Used all the way up until 1980, the leather rugby ball provided the ruffian\u2019s game played by gentlemen lifetimes of action.<\/p>\n<h2>Shop the Rugby inspired Collection<\/h2>\n<p>(Click the images to view)<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_23486\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.maxwellscottbags.com\/products\/rovello-mens-luxury-leather-suit-carrier-luggage.html\" rel=\"https:\/\/www.maxwellscottbags.com\/products\/rovello-mens-luxury-leather-suit-carrier-luggage.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-23486\" class=\"wp-image-23486 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.maxwellscottbags.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/ROVELLO_CHESTNUT_TAN_01-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"business travel style\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-23486\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Keep your club suit away from the mud with the &#8216;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.maxwellscottbags.com\/products\/rovello-mens-luxury-leather-suit-carrier-luggage.html\">Rovello<\/a>&#8216; leather suit carrier, featuring handy external zipped pockets.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_24355\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.maxwellscottbags.com\/products\/fleros-mens-small-italian-leather-holdall.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-24355\" class=\"wp-image-24355 size-medium\" title=\"https:\/\/www.maxwellscottbags.com\/products\/fleros-mens-small-italian-leather-holdall.html\" src=\"https:\/\/www.maxwellscottbags.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/FleroS-CHESTNUT_TAN_01-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"perfect leather holdall\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-24355\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pack your kit in the classic &#8216;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.maxwellscottbags.com\/products\/fleros-mens-small-italian-leather-holdall.html\">Flero<\/a>&#8216; holdall made with robust Italian leather and lined with a wipeable faux boar skin.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_38998\" style=\"width: 260px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.maxwellscottbags.com\/products\/raffaelle-mens-luxury-leather-travel-toiletry-bag.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-38998\" class=\"wp-image-38998\" src=\"https:\/\/www.maxwellscottbags.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/3_raffaelle-1.jpg\" alt=\"raffaelle-choc-front-v2\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-38998\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Throw your after-match toiletries into this sleek &#8216;Raffaelle&#8217; leather wash bag, also lined with a wipeable faux boar skin.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"excerpt\">With the Rugby World Cup 2015 descending on Twickenham this &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":2848,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1590],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-post"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maxwellscottbags.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maxwellscottbags.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maxwellscottbags.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maxwellscottbags.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maxwellscottbags.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2796"}],"version-history":[{"count":39,"href":"https:\/\/www.maxwellscottbags.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2796\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39756,"href":"https:\/\/www.maxwellscottbags.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2796\/revisions\/39756"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maxwellscottbags.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maxwellscottbags.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maxwellscottbags.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maxwellscottbags.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}