12-03-2013, 12:04 PM
According to "Amarna’s Leatherwork / André J. Veldmeijer (2011)" page 18:
"Current scholarly opinion holds that vegetable tanning, resulting in true leather,was introduced well after the Pharaonic era, most likely by the Greco-Romans (Van Driel-Murray, 2000: 299,305). However, it has been suggested (Veldmeijer &Endenburg, 2007: 36; Friedman, 2007: 60) that tanning might have been used by Nubian groups on the basis of a field test of remnants of loincloth from Hierakonpolis. these results need to be verified by proper chemical analyses (Veldmeijer, 2007b: 24;2008a: 3). The predominant skin processing technique in Pharaonic Egypt is oil curing. The use of alum and minerals in making skins durable is ambiguous (Van Driel-Murray, 2000: 303-304)."
It was once thought that vegetable tanning went back to the beginning of the Bronze age, this is probably due to difficulties in telling vegetables colours and tanning agents apart.
"Current scholarly opinion holds that vegetable tanning, resulting in true leather,was introduced well after the Pharaonic era, most likely by the Greco-Romans (Van Driel-Murray, 2000: 299,305). However, it has been suggested (Veldmeijer &Endenburg, 2007: 36; Friedman, 2007: 60) that tanning might have been used by Nubian groups on the basis of a field test of remnants of loincloth from Hierakonpolis. these results need to be verified by proper chemical analyses (Veldmeijer, 2007b: 24;2008a: 3). The predominant skin processing technique in Pharaonic Egypt is oil curing. The use of alum and minerals in making skins durable is ambiguous (Van Driel-Murray, 2000: 303-304)."
It was once thought that vegetable tanning went back to the beginning of the Bronze age, this is probably due to difficulties in telling vegetables colours and tanning agents apart.
Ivor
"And the four bare walls stand on the seashore. a wreck a skeleton a monument of that instability and vicissitude to which all things human are subject. Not a dwelling within sight, and the farm labourer, and curious traveller, are the only persons that ever visit the scene where once so many thousands were congregated." T.Lewin 1867
"And the four bare walls stand on the seashore. a wreck a skeleton a monument of that instability and vicissitude to which all things human are subject. Not a dwelling within sight, and the farm labourer, and curious traveller, are the only persons that ever visit the scene where once so many thousands were congregated." T.Lewin 1867
