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. ************************************************************************ NOTICE - This article was submitted to me by the author for inclusion in this set of files, called Stefan's Florilegium. These files are available on the Internet at: http://www.florilegium.org Copyright to the contents of this file remains with the author. While the author will likely give permission for this work to be reprinted in SCA type publications, please check with the author first or check for any permissions granted at the end of this file. Thank you, Mark S. Harris AKA: Stefan li Rous stefan at florilegium.org ************************************************************************ 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. ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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. ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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. ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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. ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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. ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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. ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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. ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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. ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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). Edited by Mark S. Harris leather-bib Page 7 of 7