--News--
More details about the ALG's Autumn trip to Dublin
are now available on the meetings page.
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)
If you have any problems using this website (e.g. links not working)
please let us know:
