leather-bib - 11/1/94
Bibliography on leather and leather goods by Kendra of Holly Oak.
NOTE: See also the files: leather2-bib, leather-msg, leather-dyeing-msg, lea-tanning-msg, lea-bladders-msg, lea-tooling-msg.
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From: Sue=Hallock%Doc%Banyan at hippo.b (10/31/94)
To: markh at sphinx
RE>CRAFTS: Leather Sources?
I have attached a copy of the bibliography as an ASCII file. If you know
of any resources that are not on this list, please let me know. I would
like to compile a complete as possible bibliography on leather. Thanks!
-- Kendra of Holly Oak, East Kingdom
LEATHER -- GENERAL
Attwater, W.A. 1961. Leathercraft. London: B.T. Batsford.
Clarkson, L.A. 1966. "The leather crafts in Tudor and Stuart
England" Agricultural History Review vol. xiv (1966): 245-
56.
Exhibition of Leathercraft Through the Ages. 1951. London:
Museum of Leathercraft.
Francis-Lewis, C. 1928. The Art and Craft of Leatherwork.
London: Seeley, Service & Co. Ltd.
Hawthorne, J. G. and C. S. Smith (trans). 1979. Theophilus: On
Divers Arts. New York.
Hunter, George Leland. 1918. Decorative Textiles. Grand
Rapids, MI: Dean-Hicks Company.
Petersen, Grete. 1961. Creative Leatherwork. London:
Blandford.
Reed, R. 1972. Ancient Skins, Parchments and Leathers. New
York: Seminar Press.
Russell, J. 1939. "English medieval leatherwork" Archeology
Journal 96: 132-41.
Roseaman, I.P. 1942. Leatherwork. Leicester: Dryad Ltd.
Sharphouse, J.H. 1963. The Leatherworker's Handbook. London:
Leather Producers' Association.
Shoe and Leather Bibliography. Northampton Museum.
Waterer, John W. 1971. "Spanish" Leather. London: Faber &
Faber Ltd.
Waterer, John W. 1968. Leather Craftsmanship. New York:
Praeger.
Waterer, J. W. 1966. "Birth and growth of a new museum -- the
Museum of Leathercraft" Museum Journal 66:203-12 D'66.
Waterer, John W. 1965. "Leather" in A History of Technology
vol. II. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
Waterer, John W. 1950. Leather and Craftmanship. London.
Waterer, J. W. 1946. Leather: in Life, Art & Industry. London:
Faber and Faber.
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LEATHER--GENERAL FINDS FROM EXCAVATIONS
Note: The best sites for finding intact leatherwork are
waterlogged or waterfront sites. The site reports for these
types of sites usually contain the word "waterfront" or
"lowland". Example: "Excavations on the Thames waterfront
at Trig Lane, London."
Armstrong, P. 1980. "Excavations in Scale Lane/Lowgate 1974"
East Riding Archaeologist, 6: 1-98.
Armstrong, P. 1977. "Excavations in Sewer lane, Hull 1974"
East Riding Archaeologist, 3.
Jackson, S. 1979 "The Leather" in Ayers, B. "Excavations at
Chapel Lane Staith 1978", East Riding Archaeologist, 5:47-
57.
MacGregor, A. 1982. Anglo-Scandinavian Finds from Lloyds Bank,
Pavement, and Other Sites. The Archeaology of York: 17.
MacGregor, A. 1978. "Industry and commerce in Anglo-
Scandinavian York" Viking Age York and the North. London:
R.A. Hall ed.
Padley, T.G. and S. Winterbottom. 1991. The Wooden, Leather and
Bone Objects from Castle Street, Carlisle: excavations 1981-
2. Kendal, England: The Cumberland and Westmorland
Antiquarian and Archaeological Society. -- primarily Roman
military tents and shoes
Pareja, Jesus Bermudez. 1974. Paintings on Leather in the
Alhambra of Granada. Vich, Spain: Colomer Munmany, S.A.
Platt, Colin, and Richard Coleman-Smith. 1975. "The Leather"
Excavations at Medieval Southampton 1953-1969. Leicester:
Leicester University Press.
Thompson, R., 1978. "The industrial archaeology of leather."
Leather, September 1978.
Tweddle, Dominic. 1986. "Finds from Parliament Street and other
sites in the City Centre" The Archaeology of York, volume
17: the small finds. London: Council for British
Archaeology.
Waateringe, Willy Groenman-van. 1984. Die Lederfunde von
Haithabu. (Leather Finds from Hedeby) Nuemunster: Karl
Wachholtz Verlag.
Waateringe, Willy Groenman-van. Leather from Medieval Svendbord.
Waterer. John W. 1972. A Guide to the Conservation and
Restoration of Objects Made Wholly or in Part of Leather.
New York: Drake Publishers, Inc.
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LEATHER AND GENERAL LEATHERGOODS MANUFACTURE
Allin, Clare E. 1981. The Medieval Leather Industry in
Leicester. Leicestershire Museums, Art Galleries and Records
Service.
Black, W. H. 1871. History and Antiquities of the Worshipful
Company of Leathersellers of the City of London. London:
privately printed.
Cherry, John. 1991. "Leather" English Medieval Industries:
craftsmen, techniques & products, John Blair and Nigel
Ramsay, eds. London: The Hambledon Press.
Clarkson, L. A. 1960. The English Leather Industry in the
Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries (1563-1700). University
of Nottingham: Ph.D. Thesis. (don't know if this was
published)
Clarkson, L. A. 1960. "The organization of the English leather
industry in the Late Sixteenth and Seventeenth centuries"
Economic History Review 13. (Probably contains much of the
research in Clarkson's Ph.D. thesis--see above)
Clarkson, L. A. 1965. "English economic policy in the Sixteenth
and Seventeenth Centuries: The case of the leather
industry" Bulletin of the Institute of Historical Research
38.
Davis, C.T. 1885. The Manufacture of Leather. Philadelphia &
London.
Jackson, Susan. 1985. Leather and Archaeology: the leather
industry in Hull from the late 13th to the 17th century.
Humberside: Humberside Leisure Services.
Lamb, M. C. 1907. Leather Dressing. London: The Leather
Trades' Publishing Company.
Lambert, J. J. 1933. Records of the Skinnners of London: Edward
I to James I. London.
Macbride, David. 1780. The Art of Tanning and Currying Leather,
etc. London: J. Nourse.
Moseley, G.C. 1939. Leather Goods Manufacture. London: Sir
Isaac Pitman & Sons Ltd.
O'Flaherty, F. ed. 1985. The Chemistry and Technology of
Leather. New York: Reinhold Publishing Company.
Salaman, R.A. 1986. Dictionary of Leather-Working Tools, c. 700-
1950.
Salzman, L.F. 1923. English Industries of the Middle Ages.
Oxford.
Thomas, S., L.A. Clarkson, R. Thomson. 1983. Leather
Manufacture Through the Ages. East Midlands Industrial
Archaeology Conference, 27.
Thompson, R., 1981. "Leather manufacture in the post-medieval
period with special reference to Northamptonshire", Post-
Mediieval Archaeology, 15: 161-175.
Thompson, R.S. 1980. "Tanning: Mans first manufacturing
process?" Trans. Newcomen Society vol. lii-liii (1980-82),
139-56.
Watt, A. 1885. The Art of Leather Manufacture. (1st edn, 1885;
3rd edn, 1890), London: Crosby Lockwood & Co.
Wood, J. T. 1912. The Puering, Bating, and Drenching of Skins.
London.
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KNIFE SHEATHS
Anon. 1927. "Viking sheaths of leather" Antiquaries Journal 7:
515-29.
Cowgill, J. 1987 Medieval Finds from Excavations in London: 1:
knives & scabbards. London: Her Majesty's Stationary
Office.
Goudge, C.E. 1979. "Late Saxon leather sheaths from Gloucester
and York" Antiquaries Journal 59:125-7.
Waddington, Q. 1927. "Viking sheath of leather" Antiquities
Journal. 7: 526.
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SHOES
Dare, M. P. 1928. Medieval Shoemakers and Tanners of Leicester,
Northampton and Nottingham: a sidelight on the History of
Footwear Crafts in the Midlands as revealed by Municipal and
Occupation Records 1196 to 1670. Associated Architectural
Societies Reports and Papers, vol. XXXIX Part I, 1928, 141-7
Grew, Francis and Margrethe de Neergaard. 1988. Medieval Finds
from Excavations in London: 2-- shoes & pattens. London:
Her Majesty's Stationary Office.
Hald, Margrethe. 1972. Primitive Shoes: an archaeological-
ethnological study based upon shoe finds from the Jutland
Peninsula. Copenhagen: The National Museum of Denmark.
Mander, C. H. W. 1931. A Desciriptive and Historical Account of
the Guild of Cordwainers of the City of London. London:
The Company.
Mountfield, P.R. 1965. "The footwear industry of the East
Midlands" East Midland Geographer vol. 23: 394-413.
Swann, J. M. 1973. "Shoe fashions to 1600" Transactions of
the Museum Assistants' Group for 1973. no. 12: 14-24.
Thomas, S. 1980. Medieval Footwear from Coventry.
Thornton, J. H. 1973. "The examination of early shoes to 1600"
Transactions of the Museum Assistants' Group for 1973. no.
12: 2-13.
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PARCHMENT
Note: Special thanks to Master Balderic of Ealdormere for
many of the references in this section.
"Byzantine Parchment" 1989. Journal of American Institute of
Conservationists. 28 Fall '89 pp 61-66.
Forbes, R.J. 1956. "Parchment" Studies in Ancient Technology
IV, Leiden, Netherlands: E.J. Brill.
Forde, Helen. 1986. Domesday Preserved. London: Her Majesty's
Stationary Office.
Fulacher, Pascal. 1988. "Metier Parcheminier" Art et Metiers
du Livre. vol 149: 77-83.
Wildbrett, Edith and Von Manfred. 1991. "Hautpergament--Ein
Naturprodukt von erlesener Schonheit" Pergament:
Geschichte, Struktur, Restaurierung, Herstellung. Jan
Thorbecke Verlag Sigmaringen.
Reed, Ronald. 1976. Specimens of Parchment with Notes by Ronald
Reed. Los Angeles: Dawson's Book Shop.
Reed, Ronald. 1975. The Nature and Making of Parchment. Leeds,
England: The Elmete Press.
Ryder, Michael L. 1964. "Parchment -- Its history, manufacture
and composition" Journal of the Society of Archivists. vol
2: 9, April, 1964.
Thompson, Daniel V. 1936. The Materials and Techniques of
Medieval Painting. NY: Constable, 1936.
Thompson, Daniel V. 1935. "Medieval Parchment-Making" The
Library. 4th series, vol. 16: 113-117.
Visscher, W.P. 1986. "Trends in Vellum and Parchment Making
Past and Present" The New Bookbinder: Journal of Designer
Bookbinders. vol. 6: 41-81.
Vorst, Benhamin. 1986. "Parchment Making--Ancient and Modern"
Fine Print. vol 12 (4): 209-221.
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BOOKS, BOXES & BOOK BOXES
Note: There are many more books on bookbinding -- when I did
this research I was focusing on tooled leather.
Cockerell, Douglas. 1901. Bookbinding and the Care of Books.
London: Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons Ltd. -- No medieval material
but good practical guide on bookbinding including detailed
account of hot blind and gold tooling.
Diehl, Edith. 1946. Bookbinding: Its background and technique.
New York: Rinehart & Company.
Dutton, Meiric. 1926. Historical Sketch of Bookbinding as an
Art. Norwood: The Holliston Mills, Inc.
Hobson, G. D. 1929. English Binding Before 1500. London.
Kup, Karl. 1957. "Notes on a Fifteenth-Century Cofferet"
Connoisseur 140: 62-66.
Waterer, J. 1968. "Irish book-satchels or budgets" Medieval
Archaeology 12. 1968: 70-82.
Waterer, John. 1954. "A Historical Forcer." Connoisseur 134:
189-191.
"The Talbot Casket and related late medieval caskets"
Archaeologica 107. 1982: 131-40.
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MISCELLANEOUS LEATHER
Hasluck, Paul N. ed. 1904. Saddlery and Harness-making.
London: J.A. Allen & Co Ltd (reprinted 1962).
Baker, Oliver. 1921. Black Jacks and Leather Bottells.
Cheltenham: privately printed for W.J. Fieldhouse.
Waterer, John. 1960. A Short History of Saddles in Europe.
Northampton: Museum of Leathercraft.
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PARTIAL REFERENCES
A Monograph on Tanning and Working in Leather.
Boots and Shoes of our Ancestors.
Dyeing of Leather.
Restoration of Leather Bindings.
Skin and Leather in Judaism (Mishnaic-Talmudic and Medieval ages
1-XV centuries).
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