Workshop on leather tanning

"Understanding Leather: From Tannery to Collection"
The Leather Conservation Centre and
Northampton University's Institute of Creative Leather Technologies
The University of Northampton
Boughton Green Road
Northampton NN2 7AN
Monday 29 June - Friday 3 July 2015

5 days CPD training for Conservators (10 participants only)

Main Subjects:

    Understanding Leather

    Understanding the threats to the preservation of leather in your
    collection

The course is a mixture of theory and practical (tanning, handling
different leathers and examining deterioration problems).

Each aspect of leather production is explored in both a theoretical
and practical way, and explained in relation to deterioration
processes and resultant care and conservation problems.

Participants will have opportunities to try some of the production
methods using both modern and traditional methods.

Experienced professionals are on-hand to answer questions and the
course takes place in an informal group, where students are
encouraged to take part and get involved.

Participants: This course is aimed at conservators, curators and
other museum professionals with responsibility for collections which
include historic leather items, who wish to understand leather
making processes and common deterioration problems found in historic
leather objects.

Those who attended the course in 2014 found it to be immensely
useful as well as enjoyable.

Cost:  UKP495 tuition only.
Accommodation may be available on campus.

NB The course will not run with less than 10 participants.

For further information or to book a place on this course please
contact

    Yvette Fletcher
    Head of Conservation
    The Leather Conservation Centre
    lcc<-at->northampton<.>ac<.>uk

Katie Wagner
Book Conservator
Smithsonian Libraries
MRC 806
PO Box 37012
Washington DC 20013-7012


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