These works have recently been added to the bibliography in the relevant sections:

 

 

*added August 2008*

 

 

Conservation:

 

Peacock, E. F. (2005) ‘Conservation of severely degraded wet archaeological leather recovered from the Norwegian Arctic. Preliminary results’, in P. Hoffmann, J. A. Spriggs, K. Strætkvern and D. Gregory Proceedings of the 9th ICOM Group on Wet Organic Archaeological Materials Conference Copenhagen 2004, Bremerhaven, ICOM-CC WOAM, 565-578

Peacock, E. F. (2007) ‘The contribution of X-radiography to the conservation and study of textile/leather composite archaeological footwear recovered from the Norwegian Arctic’, in S. O’Connor and M. M. Brooks X-radiography of Textiles, Dress and Related Objects, Oxford, Elsevier Butterworth-Heinemann, 294-301

 

 

History of leather processing/manufacture:

 

Azéma, Jean-Pierre (2004) Moulins du cuir et de la peau, Editions Creer

 

[industrial archaeological and ethnological study of tanning and chamois production in France from the 12th to the 20th century]

 

Bodman, M. (2008) Devon Leather. An Ouline History of a Lost Industry: Nineteenth Century Tanners and Tanneries, Leat Press

 

Cheshire, E. J. (2007) ‘Cuir Bouilli: an Experimental Investigation’ Journal of the Arms and Armour Society, vol. XIX, No.2 (September), 48-67

 

Hughes, Annabelle (1998) Hell for Leather: Tanners and Tanning in Horsham, E. Sussex, 1520-1741 Published privately

 

Loosemore, J. (1998) Where They Have Trod: Story of Sussex Shoemakers, Lewes, CGB Books

 

 

 

*added April - May 2008*

 

 

General:

 

Larsén, Rene and Rahme, Lotta (1999) Laeder, pergament og skind, Det kongelige Danske Kunstakademien, ISBN 87-89730-22-4

 

Prehistoric:

 

Roode, S. M. van and Veldmeijer, A. J. (2005) ‘Leatherwork from Qasr Ibrim. Preliminary notes of the first season’, in S. M. van Roode, ed. The PalArch Foundation’s Proceedings of the Annual Flemish-Netherlands Egyptologists’ Meeting 2004, Amsterdam, PalArch Foundation, 4-5

 

Veldmeijer, A. J. (2007) ‘The world of leather’, Nekhen News 19, Fall 2007, 24

 

Veldmeijer, A. J. and Endenburg, E. (2007) ‘Amarna leatherwork in the Berlin Museum’, Egyptian Archaeology 31, 36-37

 

Veldmeijer, A. J. (2008) ‘Leatherwork’, in Willeke Wendrich, ed. UCLA Encyclopedia of Egyptology, Los Angeles. This article is available to read or download online at: http://repositories.cdlib.org/nelc/uee/1045

 

Veldmeijer, A. J. and Laidler, J. (2008) ‘Leatherwork in ancient Egypt’, in H. Selin, ed. Encyclopedia of the history of science, technology and medicine in non-western cultures, Heidelberg, Springer Verlag

 

 

Roman H to Z:

 

Veldmeijer, A. J. and Driel-Murray, C. van (forthcoming 2008) Leatherwork from Qasr Ibrim, vol.2: The Pharaonic Period to the Age of Christianity, Leiden, NINO (Netherlands Institute for the Near East)

 

 

Post-medieval/ Early modern:

 

Shaw, M. (1996) ‘The excavation of a late 15th to 17th century tanning complex at The Green, Northampton’, Post-Medieval Archaeology 30, 63-127

 

Shaw, M. (1984), ‘Northampton: excavating a 16th century tannery’, Current Archaeology 91, 241-44

 

Shaw, M. ‘Early post-medieval tanning in Northampton, England’, Archaeology (Archaeological Institute of America) 40, 43-47

 

Veldmeijer, A. J. (forthcoming 2008) Leatherwork from Qasr Ibrim, vol. 1: Ottoman, Leiden, NINO (Netherlands Institute for the Far East)

 

 

History of leather processing/manufacture:

 

 

Rahme, Lotta (1991) Skinn garvning och beredning med traditionella metoder,   ISBN 91-63-14522-7

 

Rahme, Lotta (1998) Preparation and Tanning by Traditional Methods, The Caber Press, ISBN 1-887719-11-3

 

Richards, M (2nd edition 2004) Deerskins into Buckskins: How to Tan with Natural Materials, Backcountry Publishing, ISBN 0965867242

 

Riggs, J (2nd edition 2003) Blue Mountain Buckskin: A Working Manual for Dry-Scrape Brain-tan, Backcountry Publishing, ISBN 9780965867214