Links

We would like to assemble a useful collection of links here to online resources for the study of leather and leatherworking. If you have suggestions for non-commercial sites that can be added to the list below please email Sue Winterbottom who is maintaining these pages.

Treatment and Conservation of
Archaeological Leather

ICOM Working Group: Conservation of Leather and Related Materials

one piece shoe English Heritage Guidelines

UK Institute of Conservation (ICON)

The Leather Conservation Centre

The Deliberately Concealed Garments Project

Skin and Leather in Cultural Heritage (weblog with many links to relevant publications)

Identification

Furskin Identification (Czech website devoted to a method of identifying fur skin samples
which uses a library of electron-microscope photographs and a computer algorithm)

Museums

Walsall Leather Museum

Northampton Museums: 1. The footwear collection

Northampton Museums: 2. Some highlights of the collection

Museum of Leathercraft (website has a downloadable newsletter)

trainer Nederlands Leder en Schoenen Museum, Waalwijk

Deutsches Ledermuseum, Offenbach

Bata Shoe Museum, Canada

Museu de la Pell, Igualada (Catalonia, Spain)

Museu de l'Art de la Pell, Vic (Catalonia, Spain)

Museo del Calzado, Elda, Valencia

The Shoe Museum at Zlin, Czechoslovakia

The National Footwear Museum, Izegem (Belgium)

El Museo del Calçat, Barcelona

(The last four links were obtained from ShoeInfoNet.com
If you have trouble getting the links on that site to work, try this page:
www.shoeinfonet.com/menu.htm)

Musée du Cuir, Château-Renault (Indre-et-Loire, France)
Very good, according to Roy Thomson!