[Regia-NA] Re: *WH* Fwd: [Midlaurel] Be part of the success of anamazing museum!]

[CR Mayhew Comcast Account]

A friend just brought this book back from his trip to the Jorvik festival.
If leatherwork's your thing, it's wonderful...

--charlotte mayhew


> The York Archaeological Trust book on the leatherwork
> and shoes by Ester Cameron and Ian Carlisle is due
> out this year. You might want to pre-order from
> Oxbowbooks.com / David Brown Book Co. and avoid
> the ten dollars per pound (more now with inflation) book
> postage from York direct. York is much faster but David Brown
> is much cheaper. Ian started talking about it five
> years ago and never mentioned Ester was to be the
> prime author. They monitor the medieval-leatherwork
> at yahoogroups list.
>
> If it is shoes only you want then Stepping Through Time
> by Goubitz is the best book on the subject.
>
> We have a sizable number of the York book series ourselves.
>
> This is the last major medieval leatherwork book I know of
> (besides a rare Hedeby one) that we don't have. There are
> some scattered small ones from Scandinavia and Switzerland
> I've been aware of but not been chasing seriously.
>
> Magnus
>
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