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Great article here describing the find of a complete 4th millennium BC
leather shoe in a cave in southern Armenia:
Chalcolithic shoe
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21-23 October 2010: wide-ranging conference on 'Parchment and
Leather' (research, conservation, restoration, craft) in Torun, Poland:
Torun Conference
A downloadable .pdf of A. Veldmeijer's recent article on leather from Ancient Egypt can be found here:
Part X. Leather Composite Sandals
This presents 15 well-made and well-preserved sandals, many in bright colours and decorated, from New Kingdom
contexts. It forms part of the Ancient Egyptian Footwear Project.
John Parrott's book on the history of the tanning industry in Wantage, Oxfordshire,
has just been published. Details can be found here:
The Largest Tanyard in the Kingdom
A review of Schuhtick, the book accompanying the footwear exhibition of the same
name which runs until March 2010 in Bremen, can be read here:
Review of Roder, H.(ed) Schuhtick
André Veldmeijer's article on Leatherwork in the recently published
UCLA Encyclopedia of Egyptology (2008, ed. Willeke Wendrich) can be read
online or downloaded *here*
Purses in Pieces: Archaeological Finds of Late Medieval and 16th century
Leather Purses, Pouches, Bags and Cases in the Netherlands, by the late Olaf
Goubitz, is now published. It is for sale on the Oxbow Books website where the
first 30 pages, complete with illustrations, can be browsed as a PDF file:
Purses in Pieces
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