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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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