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Members of ICON (the Institute of Conservation) Book and Paper
Group will be hosting a Parchment Analysis Workshop as part of its
training programme at the National Archives in London, from Tuesday
27 to Friday 30 March, 2012. This course is normally only available in
continental Europe and is being presented by experts from the Royal
Danish Academy of Fine Arts School of Conservation. It will involve
both theoretical presentations and practical experiments and will teach
delegates to identify and assess the condition of parchment and
categorise its degradation potential. Further details are available here:
Parchment Analysis Workshop
ICOM-CC Leather Working Group Meeting, 2012
The International Council of Museums - Committee for Conservation
will be holding the next Interim Meeting of its Leather and Related
Materials Working Group at the German Leather Museum/Shoe Museum, Offenbach, from Wednesday
29 to Friday 31 August, 2012 .
The meeting will focus on presenting an overview of the current state of research,
practice and progress in the field of conservation
and restoration of leather and related materials.
Full details and a call for papers and posters can be accessed from this web page:
ICOM-CC Leather Working Group
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 available at a reduced price: from € 24,50 to € 17,50
Purses in Pieces
The German Leather Museum/German Shoe Museum, Offenbach
In March 2011, members of the Leather Group visited this wonderful museum, which is
not as well-known as it should be. Nowhere else will you find such a wide-ranging
collection, which has a significance for social and folk history and for the
history of the decorative arts which goes way beyond its special concern with
leather and shoes. We defy any visitor not to find its collections fascinating!
On this page, Jutta Göpfrich describes its recent refurbishment and future expansion:
Offenbach Museum
Recent ALG Publication
Papers from the Leather Group's 2008 Conference at Walsall Leather Museum have now been published:
Leather Tanneries: The Archaeological Evidence is edited by Roy Thomson and Quita Mould and
can be obtained from the publishers, Archetype Books
(www.archetype.co.uk)
Stoke-on-Trent Museum Archaeological Society is now displaying some of the shoes
from last summer's excavation of a Roman well at Tollgate Farm on its website and at
the Potteries Museum and Art Gallery in the city:
Roman shoes from Staffordshire. The well seems to have been rapidly backfilled and all the
organic material in the fill was superbly preserved.
Dave Thomas, from the Stoke society is happy
to answer any queries about the site and its finds:
contact email
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
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