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Document Type: | Book |
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All Authors / Contributors: |
John William Waterer; Peter C Meade; Museum of Leathercraft. |
ISBN: | 0950418226 9780950418223 |
OCLC Number: | 14129347 |
Notes: | Previous edition: i.e. 2nd ed. published as A guide to the conservation and restoration of objects made wholly or in part of leather. London : Bell, 1972. Editor: Peter C. Meade. |
Credits: | Editor: Peter C. Meade. |
Description: | ix, 52 pages ; 25 cm |
Contents: | Conservation and restoration -- The recognition of leather and its imitations -- The composition of 'leather objects' -- The nature of leather -- The preparation of hides and skins for conversion into leather -- Vegetable process (tanning) -- Mineral process (originally tawing) -- Oil process (Originally chamoising) -- Combination tannages -- Dressing -- Finishing -- Untanned hide or skin -- The treatment of old leather -- Archaeological materials -- Wet leather -- Dry leather -- Ancient Egyptian material -- Historical material -- Objects made of vegetable-tanned leather -- Heavy cattle hide leather -- Shaved or split cattle hide leather -- Leather made from skins (vegetable-tanned) -- Objects made of mineral-tanned leather -- Tawed with alum and salt -- Modern white leathers -- Chrome tannage -- Objects made of oil-tanned leather -- 'Buff' leather -- 'Shammy' or 'wash' leather -- Untanned hide or skin -- Parchment, vellum or forel -- Rawhide -- Physical restoration -- Fungus -- Insects -- Sunlight -- Colour -- Leather and iron -- Adhesive tape -- Varnish -- Treatment of stains -- Metal components -- Physical aspects of storage and display -- 'Red-rot.' |
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