Leather Bibliography (in Progress)
by Kendra of Hollyoak, with some additions by I. Marc
Carlson
This bibliography was originally compiled by Sue Hallock (SKA: Kendra of
Holly Oak (East Kingdom))(94 Berlin St. Clinton, MA 01510)
email:hallock@banyan.com.
It has been edited somewhat by I. Marc Carlson (SKA: Diarmuit Ui
Dhuinn (Ansteorra)), and so if there are any errors, they are
more likely to be his fault.
If you know of any resources that are not included in this
bibliography, please email them to me so that I may continue to
improve the bibliography. Thanks!
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- Alexis of Piedmont The Secretes of
the Reverende Maister Alexis of Piemount, ANNO 1558.
- Attwater, W.A. Leathercraft. London: B.T. Batsford,
1961.
- Cennini, Cennino. Il libro
dell'arte ... New Haven, Yale University Press; London: H.
Milford, Oxford University Press, 1932-33.
["A copy ... now in the Mediceo-Laurenziana in Florence, is
the earliest extant recension of Cennino's text, and as such has
been chosen as the basis of the present edition."--Pref. v.1.
Text, edited by D.V. Thompson, Jr.--v. 2. The craftsman's
handbook, translated from the Italian by D.V. Thompson, Jr.]
- Clarkson, L.A. "The leather crafts in Tudor and Stuart
England" Agricultural History Review 14 (1966): 245-
56.
- Exhibition of Leathercraft Through the Ages. London:
Museum of Leathercraft, 1951.
- Francis-Lewis, C. The Art and Craft of Leatherwork.
London: Seeley, Service & Co. Ltd, 1928.
- Glenn, George. "Making Camp Gear" The Book of Buckskinning
II, ed. by William H. Scurlock. Texarkana, Rebel Publishing
Co., 1983.
- Gonzalo Maeso, David. Piel en el judacismo=Skin and leather
in Judaism: (Mishnaic-Talmudic and medieval ages, I-XV
centuries). Vic, Spain: Colomer Munmany, 1979. [OCLC:
8283441]
- Grant, Madison. "The Hunting Pouch" The Book of
Buckskinning III, ed. by William H. Scurlock. Texarkana,
Rebel Publishing Co., 1983.
- Howden, F. P. The dyeing of leather. Wilmington, Del.:
E.I. du Pont de Nemours, c1924. [OCLC: 23791662; 941744]
- Hunter, George Leland. Decorative Textiles. Grand
Rapids, MI : Dean-Hicks Company, 1918.
- Katalog des Deutsches Ledermuseums und Deutsches
Schuhmuseums, color plate ("Tafel") III,
(Universitatsdruckerei, H. Sturtz AG, Würzburg, 1967).
- Laliof, Steven M. "The Traditional Hunting Pouch" The Book
of Buckskinning VI, ed. by William H. Scurlock. Texarkana,
Rebel Publishing Co., 1992.
- Nathan, Maude, tr.. Leather Work, from the French of
Georges de Récy, translated by Maude Nathan (1905)
Portland, Or: The Caber Press, 2000.
- Newman, Thelma R. Leather as art and craft. London:
Allen and Unwin, 1973. [OCLC: 16301363; 787561]
- Petersen, Grete. Creative Leatherwork. London:
Blandford, 1961.
- Rahme, Lotta and Dag Hartman. Leather, Preparation and
Tanning by Traditional Methods. Translated from the Swedish
by David Greenebaum. Portland Or: The Caber Press, 1998.
- Reed, Ronald. Ancient Skins, Parchments
and Leathers. New York: Seminar Press, 1972.
- Roseaman, I.P. Leatherwork. Leicester: Dryad Ltd.,
1942.
- Rosetti, Gioanventura The Plictho of
Gioanventura Rosetti... MIT Press, 1969.
This translation, by Edelstein and Borghetti, has a facsimile
of the original (1548?) manuscript and translation. Rosetti was a
guildmaster of a dyeing guild in Italy.
- Russell, J. "English medieval leatherwork" Archeology
Journal 96 (1939): 132-41.
- Sharphouse, J.H. The Leatherworker's Handbook. London
: Leather Producers' Association. 1963.
- Shoe and Leather Bibliography. Northampton
Museum.
- Tearney, Pat. "Working with Leather" The Book of
Buckskinning II, ed. by William H. Scurlock. Texarkana, Rebel
Publishing Co., 1983.
- Theophilus. On Divers Arts.
Hawthorne, J. G. and C. S. Smith (trans). New York: Dover,
1979.
- Van Driel-Murray, Carol. "Leatherwork and skin products" In
Nicholson, P.T. and Shaw I., ed. Ancient Egyptian Materials
and Technology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
1999 pp.299-319
- Waterer, John William "Birth and
growth of a new museum -- the Museum of Leathercraft". Museum
Journal 66 (Dec 1966):203-12.
- Waterer, John William "Leather" in
A History of Technology vol. II. Oxford: Clarendon Press,
1965.
- Waterer, John William. Leather.
(Looking at the past ; 2) London: Ginn, 1970. [OCLC:
16189410]
- Waterer, John William Leather: in
Life, Art & Industry. London: Faber and Faber, 1946.
- Waterer, John William Leather and
Craftmanship. London: ???, 1950.
- Waterer, John William. Leather and
the warrior: an account of the importance of leather to the
fighting man from the time of the ancient Greeks to World War
II. Northampton: The Museum of Leathercraft, 1981. [OCLC:
9890911]
- Waterer, John William Leather
Craftsmanship. New York : Praeger, 1968.
- Waterer, John William Spanish
Leather. London: Faber & Faber Ltd, 1971.
(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. "Excavations in Scale Lane/Lowgate 1974"
East Riding Archaeologist, 6 (1980): 1-98.
- Armstrong, P. "Excavations in Sewer lane, Hull 1974" East
Riding Archaeologist, 3 (1977).
- Armstrong, Peter. "Leather" In Excavations in Sewer lane,
Hull, 1974. Hull Old Town Report Series no.1. East
Riding Archaeologist. 3 (1977), p.51-60.
- Armstrong, Peter. "Leather" In Excavations in Scale
Lane/Lowgate, 1974. Hull Old Town Report Series no.4.
East Riding Archaeologist. 6 (1980), p.68-69.
- Carlisle, Ian R., Mould, Q., and Cameron, E., Leather and
leatherworking in Anglo-Scandinavian and Medieval York. York
Archaeological Trust, forthcoming,
- Groenmann-Van Waateringe, Willy. Die Lederfunde von
Haithabu. (Berichte Über die Ausgrabungen in Haithabu,
Berichte 21) Neumunster : K. Wachholtz, 1984.
- Groenman-Van Waateringe, Willy. Leather from Medieval
Svendborg, (Archaeology of Svendborg, Denmark, 5) Odense
University Press, 1988.
- Jackson, S. "The Leather" in Ayers, B. "Excavations at Chapel
Lane Staith 1978", East Riding Archaeologist, 5
(1979):47-57.
- MacGregor, Arthur. Anglo-Scandinavian Finds from Lloyds Bank,
Pavement, and Other Sites. The Archeaology of York: 17
(1982).
- MacGregor, Arthur. "Industry and commerce in
Anglo-Scandinavian York" in Viking Age York and the North,
R.A. Hall, ed. London: ???, 1978.
- Metcalf, A.C. and R.B. Longmore. "Leather Artifacts from
Vindolandia" Transactions of the Museum Assistants' Group for
1973. no. 12
- Padley, T.G. and S. Winterbottom. "The Wooden, Leather and
Bone Objects from Castle Street", Carlisle: excavations
1981- 2. Kendal, England: The Cumberland and Westmorland
Antiquarian and Archaeological Society, 1981.
[primarily Roman military tents and shoes]
- Pareja, Jesus Bermudez. Paintings on Leather in the
Alhambra of Granada. Vich, Spain: Colomer Munmany, S.A.,
1974.
- Platt, Colin, and Richard Coleman-Smith. "The Leather"
Excavations at Medieval Southampton, 1953-1969. Leicester:
Leicester University Press, 1975.
- Thompson, R., "The industrial archaeology of leather."
Leather, September 1978.
- Tweddle, Dominic. "Finds from Parliament Street and other
sites in the City Centre" The Archaeology of York, vol. 17:
the small finds. London: Council for British Archaeology,
1986.
- Van Driel-Murray, Carol. "Leatherwork and skin products" In
Nicholson, P.T. and Shaw I., ed. Ancient Egyptian Materials
and Technology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
1999 pp.299-319
- Van Driel-Murray, Carol. "The Leatherwork" In Vindolandia
Research Reports, New Series, Volume 3, The Early Wooden Forts.
Preliminary Reports on the Leather, Textiles, Environmental
Evidence and Dendrochronology. pp1-75
- Waterer, John William. A Guide to
the Conservation and Restoration of Objects Made Wholly or in
Part of Leather. New York: Drake Publishers, Inc, 1972
- Allin, Clare E. The Medieval Leather Industry in
Leicester. Leicestershire Museums, Art Galleries and Records
Service, 1981.
- Black, W. H. History and Antiquities of the Worshipful
Company of Leathersellers of the City of London. London:
privately printed, 1871.
- Cherry, John. "Leather" English Medieval Industries:
craftsmen, techniques & products. John Blair and Nigel
Ramsay, eds. London: The Hambledon Press, 1991
- Churchill, James E. The complete book of tanning skins and
furs Harrisburg, PA: Stackpole Books, c1983.
- Clarkson, Leslie A. "English economic policy in the Sixteenth
and Seventeenth Centuries: The case of the leather industry"
Bulletin of the Institute of Historical Research 38
(1965).
- Clarkson, Leslie A. The English Leather Industry in the
Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries (1563-1700). University
of Nottingham: Ph.D. Thesis. 1960
- Clarkson, Leslie A. "The organization of the English leather
industry in the Late Sixteenth and Seventeenth centuries"
Economic History Review 13 (1960).
[This probably contains much of the research in Clarkson's
Ph.D. thesis--see above]
- Colston, E. J. A monograph on tanning and working in
leather in the Province of Burma. Rangoon: Office of the
Superintendent, Government Printing, 1903. [OCLC: 21660160]
- Clarkson, Leslie A., Sue Thomas, and Roy Thompson. "Leather
Manufacture Through the Ages" Proceedings of the 27th East
Midlands Industrial Archaeology Conference, October, 1983.
Northampton: Arkle, 1983? [OCLC: 17920306]
- Davis, C.T. The Manufacture of Leather. Philadelphia
& London: ???, 1885.
- Farnham, A. B., Home Tanning and Leather Making Guide.
Columbus, OH: A. R. Harding Publishing Company, 1920
- Hobson, Phyllis. Tan Your Hide. Charlotte, Vermont:
Garden Way Publishing, 1982
- Jackson, Susan. Leather and Archaeology: the leather
industry in Hull from the late 13th to the 17th century.
Humberside: Humberside Leisure Services, 1985.
- Lamb, M. C. Leather Dressing. London: The Leather
Trades' Publishing Company. 1907
- Lambert, J. J. Records of the Skinnners of London: Edward
I to James I. London: ????, 1933.
- Macbride, David. The Art of Tanning and Currying Leather,
etc. London: J. Nourse, 1780.
- Moseley, G.C. Leather Goods Manufacture. London: Sir
Isaac Pitman & Sons Ltd., 1939.
- O'Flaherty, F. ed. The Chemistry and Technology of
Leather. New York: Reinhold Publishing Company, 1985.
- Odle, Mark. "Tools and Techniques of Bark Tanning". The
Book of Buckskinning VII, ed. by William H. Scurlock.
Texarkana, Rebel Publishing Co., 1995.
- Rahme, Lotta Rahme & Dag Hartman (kemiavsnitten).
Skinn - garvning och beredning med traditionella metoder.
Stockholm: LTS Forlag, 1991. ["Leather -- tanning and preparing
with traditional methods". Portland, OR: Caber press, 1996?]
- Salaman, R.A. Dictionary of Leather-Working Tools,
c.1700-1950. London: Allan & Unwin ; New York: MacMillan,
1986.
[*Good* book and highly informative. I may not have always
agreed with the author's opinions, but they were clearly
indicated as such.]
- Salzman, L.F. English Industries of the Middle Ages.
Oxford: 1923.
- Schwaegel, Bruce. "From Raw Hide to Rawhides." The Book of
Buckskinning IV, ed. by William H. Scurlock. Texarkana, Rebel
Publishing Co., 1987
- Thompson, R.S. "Leather manufacture in the post-medieval
period with special reference to Northamptonshire",
Post-Medieval Archaeology, 15 (1981): 161-175.
- Thompson, R.S. "Tanning: Mans first manufacturing process?"
Trans. Newcomen Society vol. lii-liii (1980-82),
139-56.
- Vivian, June. Home tanners' handbook. (Wellington: A.
H. & A. W. Reed, 1976), (Vancouver, B.C.: Douglas &
McIntyre, 1981, c1976).
- Waters, Ivor. Leather and oak bark at Chepstow. 41
Hardwick Ave., Chepstow (Monmouthshire), Wales: The Chepstow
Society, 1970.
- Watt, A. The Art of Leather Manufacture. London:
Crosby Lockwood & Co., (1st edn, 1885; 3rd edn, 1890).
- Wells, Larry J., Leather Makin'. Bountiful, UT:
Horizon Publishers & Distributors, Inc, 1985.
- Wood, J. T. The Puering, Bating, and Drenching of
Skins. London: ? , 1912
You might also want to further explore the bibliographies
found at WWW.Braintan.com Here and Here.
- Anon. . "Viking sheaths of leather" Antiquaries
Journal 7 (1927): 515-29.
- Cowgill, Jane, Knives and
Scabbards (Medieval Finds from Excavations in London: 1).
London: Her Majesty's Stationary Office, 1987.
- Goudge, C.E. "Late Saxon leather sheaths from Gloucester and
York" Antiquaries Journal 59 (1979):125-7.
- Waddington, Q. "Viking sheath of leather" Antiquities
Journal. 7 (1927): 526.
- Carlson, I Marc. Footwear of the Middle Ages, With Special
Attention on Britain and Denmark. Tulsa, Oklahoma: n.p., 11
November 1995.
- Carlson, I Marc. Footwear of the Middle Ages, With Special
Attention on Britain and Denmark. (old:
www.pbm.com/~Lindahl/shoehome.htm) 1996. (new: www.personal.utulsa.edu/~marc-carlson/shoe/SHOEHOME.HTM)
2003
- Dare, M. P. "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.
- Dutton, W. H. The boots and shoes of our ancestors as
exhibited by the Worshipful company of cordwainers: with a brief
history of the company. London: Chapman and Hall, 1898.
[OCLC: 29087718; 1517624]
- Geiger, Gregory G. "Techniques for Making Footwear." The
Book of Buckskinning III, ed. by William H. Scurlock.
Texarkana, Rebel Publishing Co., 1983.
- Grew, Francis and Margrethe de
Neergaard. Shoes and Pattens (Medieval Finds from
Excavations in London: 2) London: Her Majesty's Stationary
Office, 1988.
- Hald, Margrethe. Primitive Shoes: an
archaeological-ethnological study based upon shoe finds from the
Jutland Peninsula. Copenhagen: The National Museum of
Denmark, 1972.
- Mander, C. H. W. A Descriptive and Historical Account of
the Guild of Cordwainers of the City of London. London: The
Company, 1931.
- Mountfield, P.R. "The footwear industry of the East Midlands"
East Midland Geographer 23 (1965): 394-413.
- Swann, J. M. "Shoe fashions to 1600" Transactions of the
Museum Assistants' Group for 1973. no. 12: 14-24.
- Thomas, S. Medieval Footwear from Coventry. ???: ????,
1980.
- Thornton, J. H. "The examination of early shoes to 1600"
Transactions of the Museum Assistants' Group for 1973. no.
12: 2-13.
- White, George M. Craft manual of North American Indian
footwear. s.l.: n.p., 1969
(Note: Special thanks to Rick Cavasin (aka Master Balderic of
Ealdormere) for many of the references in this section.)
- "Byzantine Parchment" Journal of American Institute of
Conservationists 28 (Fall '89): 61-66.
- Forbes, R.J. "Parchment" Studies in Ancient Technology
IV, Leiden, Netherlands: E.J. Brill, 1956.
- Forde, Helen. Domesday Preserved. London: Her
Majesty's Stationary Office, 1986.
- Fulacher, Pascal. "Metier Parcheminier" Art et Metiers du
Livre. 149 (1988): 77-83.
- Wildbrett, Edith and Von Manfred. Hautpergament--Ein
Naturprodukt von erlesener Schonheit Pergament: Geschichte,
Struktur, Restaurierung, Herstellung. Jan Thorbecke Verlag
Sigmaringen, 1991.
- Reed, Ronald. Specimens of Parchment with Notes by Ronald
Reed. Los Angeles: Dawson's Book Shop, 1976.
- Reed, Ronald. The Nature and Making of Parchment.
Leeds, England : The Elmete Press, 1975.
- Ryder, Michael L. "Parchment -- Its history, manufacture and
composition" Journal of the Society of Archivists. vol 2:
9, April, 1964.
- Thompson, Daniel V. The Materials and Techniques of
Medieval Painting. NY: Constable, 1936.
- Thompson, Daniel V. "Medieval Parchment-Making" The
Library. 4th series, 16 (1935): 113-117.
- Visscher, W.P. "Trends in Vellum and Parchment Making Past
and Present" The New Bookbinder: Journal of Designer
Bookbinders. 6 (1986): 41-81.
- Vorst, Benhamin. "Parchment Making--Ancient and Modern"
Fine Print 12, no. 4 (1986): 209-221.
- Wumachter, Otto. Diagnosis and therapy in parchment and
miniature restoration. Portland, OR: Caber press, 1987.
(translated by Nancy Miller; as published in Restaurator,
vol. 5,)
(Note: There are many more books on bookbinding -- when I did
this research I was focusing on tooled leather.)
- Cockerell, Douglas. Bookbinding and the Care of Books.
London: Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons Ltd, 1901.
[No medieval material but good practical guide on bookbinding
including detailed account of hot blind and gold tooling.]
- Diehl, Edith. Bookbinding: Its background and
technique. New York: Rinehart & Company, 1946.
- Dutton, Meiric. Historical Sketch of Bookbinding as an
Art. Norwood: The Holliston Mills, Inc, 1926
- Hobson, G. D. English Binding Before 1500. London:
????, 1929.
- Kup, Karl. "Notes on a Fifteenth-Century Cofferet"
Connoisseur 140 (1957): 62-66.
- Middleton, Bernard C., The restoration of leather
bindings. Chicago : American Library Association, 1984.
[OCLC: 9827915]
- Waterer, John William. "Irish
book-satchels or budgets" Medieval Archaeology 12 (1968):
70-82.
- Waterer, John William. "A Historical
Forcer." Connoisseur 134 (1954): 189-191.
- "The Talbot Casket and related late medieval caskets"
Archaeologica 107 (1982): 131-40.
- Amman, Jost. Kunstbüchlein. Pictorial archive of
decorative Renaissance woodcuts. New York: Dover, [1985]
c1968
- Beatie, Russel H. Saddles. Norman: University of
Oklahoma Press, 1981. [ISBN 080611584X]
[$35.00. There is likely a later and more expensive edition
($70.00)) N.b. Beatie's scholastic value has been called into
question, that too much of his material is anecdotal based on
what he'd heard along the way, so bear this in mind when using
this source.]
- Cisneros, Jose. Riders across the centuries. El Paso:
University of Texas Press, 1984.
- Country life book of saddlery and equipment. New York:
Howell Book House, 1988.
[Reprint. Originally published: The Country life book of
saddlery and equipment. London; New York: Country Life Books,
1981. ISBN 087605873X Also known as: The Howell book of saddlery
and tack / consultant editor, Elwyn Hartley Edwards.]
- Fair Lady Aside. s.l.: n.p., n.d.
[Informative work on the history of the Side Saddle. Cost
$15.00 plus $1.50 postage. Send order to World Sidesaddle
Federation, Inc. P.O. Box 1104 Bucyrus, Ohio 44820]
- Hasluck, Paul N. ed. Saddlery and Harness-making.
London: J.A. Allen & Co Ltd, 1904. (reprinted 1962).
- Liedtke, Walter A. The royal horse and rider: painting,
sculpture, and horsemanship, 1500-1800. [New York?]: Abaris
Books in association with the Metropolitan Museum of Art,
1989.
- Schmidt, Bob, and Tom Bryant. "Pack Saddles & Panniers."
The Book of Buckskinning V, ed. by William H. Scurlock.
Texarkana, Rebel Publishing Co., 1989.
- Schmidt, Bob, and Tom Bryant "Horse Gear, East and West"
The Book of Buckskinning VI, ed. by William H. Scurlock.
Texarkana, Rebel Publishing Co., 1992.
- Steffen, Randy. The horse soldier, 1776-1943. Norman :
University of Oklahoma Press, 1976-.
[v. 1. The Revolution, the War of 1812, the early frontier,
1776-1850. - v. 2. The frontier, the Mexican War, the Civil War,
the Indian wars, 1851-1880. - v.3. The last of the Indian wars,
the Spanish-American War, the Brink of the Great War, 1881-1916.
- v. 4. World War I, the Peacetime army, World War II,
1917-1943.]
- Steffen, Randy. Horsemen through civilization.
Colorado Springs : Western Horseman, 1967.
[This book reprints material originally published in the
Western Horseman.]
- Steffen, Randy. United States military saddles,
1812-1943. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, [1973]
- Tylden, Major G. Horses and Saddlery. London: J. A.
Allen, 1965
- Vernam, Glenn R. Man on horseback. New York: Harper
& Row, 1964 [OCLC: 1354523]
- Waterer, John William. A Short
History of Saddles in Europe. Northampton: Museum of
Leathercraft, 1960.
- Baker, Oliver. Black Jacks and Leather Bottells.
Cheltenham: privately printed for various, 1921.
[I am told by some scholars that this is a "bad" source
because it doesn't really tell how anything was done. This is
entirely true. However, it makes no pretence to be anything but a
book *about* leather mugs and bottells, and as such is it rather
informative.]
Leatherworking in the Middle Ages - Leather
Bibliography. Sue Hallock, with some additions by I. Marc
Carlson. Copyright © 1996, 1999, 2001, 2003 I. Marc
Carlson
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