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  • 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

  • Newsletter 30, for September 2009, is now available as a .pdf file in the Members' Area.

  • The Dutch shoe museum at Waalwijk is devoting an exhibition to aspects of the life and works of Olaf Goubitz, who died last year. It will include leather objects which he conserved and restored, some of his meticulous replicas (shoes, purses) as well as his unsurpassed drawings of leatherwork. Also in focus will be the wide scope of his artistic talent and his quirky humour:

    Stepping Through Time: Hommage aan Olaf Goubitz
    October 4, 2009 - January 10, 2010

    Opening times are available here: www.schoenenmuseum.nl

  • 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

  • ICOM-CC Working group: Leather and related materials
    Post-prints of the 1998 Brussels meeting on the conservation of gilt leather are now available online as a free download, either in colour or black and white. The downloaded files can be printed or burned onto a CD. The publication can also be purchased in book form, at cost plus postage. The options can be explored on this web page:   Gilt leather
    The text consists of 12 full papers (in English) and abstracts of almost all the other papers (in English and French)

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