Effect of artificial heat ageing on the humidity sorption of parchment and leathers compared with archaeological samples

Journal of the Society of Leather Technologists and Chemists

Volumn 84, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 219-222

  Abdel Maksoud, G M M ^a,b   Marcinkowska, E ^b  

^a Cairo Univ   (Egypt)

^b CRACOW UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 0442328504     PISSN: 01440322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (18)

1. Strzelczyk, A. B., Kuroczkin, J. and Krumbien, W. E., Studies on the microbial degradation of ancient leather bookbinding, Part 1, International Biodeterioration, 1987, 23, 3.
2. Kathapolia, Y., Conservation and Restoration of Archive Materials, UNESCO, Paris, 1973, 39.
3. Forbes, R. J., Leather in antiquity, Studies in Ancient Technology, 5, p. 62. E. J. Brill, Leiden (1957).
4. Thomson, R. S., Leather manufacture in the post Medieval period with special references to Northamptonshire. Post Medieval Arch, London, 1981, 15, 161.
5. Hodges, H., Artefacts, p. 27, Baker, J., London (1964).
6. Williams, R. S., Surface Encrustation on Caribou Skin Coat, p. 1, Canadian Conservation Institute, Ottawa, Canada (1982).
7. Abdel-Maksoud, G. M. M., Preparation of parchment samples for experimental studies in conservation. Journal of Cracow University of Technology, 1999, 1A, 154.
8. Reed, R., Ancient Skins, Parchments and Leathers, Seminar Press, London and New York, 1972, 118-173.
9. Abdel-Hamid, H., Scientific procedures for conservation of organic materials (manuscripts, woods and textiles), Cairo, Egypt, 1984, 55.
10. Abdel-Maksoud, G. M. M., Preparation of vegetable tanned leather samples for experimental studies in restoration and conservation field, Journal of Cracow University of Technology, 1999, 1A, 168.
11. Thomson, R. S., A History of Leather Processing from the Medieval to the Present Time. Leather, its Composition and Changes with Time, The Leather Conservation Centre, U.K., 1991, pp. 12-15.
12. Bickley, J. C., Vegetable Tannins. Leather, its Composition and Changes with Time, ibid, pp. 16-23.
13. Haines, B. M., Skin Structure and Leather Properties. Leather, its Composition and Changes with Time, ibid, 1-5.
14. Abdel-Maksoud, G. M. M., Szostak-Kot, J. and Barabasz, W., Biodeterioration of leather during the tanning process. Symposium on Microorganisms and Soil Life, Agriculture University, Cracow, Poland, 1997, 383-392.
15. Larsen, R., Similarities and differences in the amino acid composition of new, historical and aged leather in Conservation-Restoration of Leather and Training of Restorers, 6th International Restorer Seminar, Veszprem, Hungary), 1987, 205-210.
16. Chahine, C. and Rottier, C., Study on the stability of leather treated with polyethylene glycol, ICOM Committee for Conservation, Interim Meeting on the Treatment of and Research into Leather in Particular of Ethnographic Objects, Amsterdam, 5-8 April, 1995, 77-85.
17. Hallebeek, P. B., STEP Leather Project, (European Commission, Decorative-General for Science, Research and Development, The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, School of Conservation, Denmark), 1994, 107-111.
18. Larsen, R., STEP Leather Project, (European Commission, Decorative-General for Science, Research and Development, The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, School of Conservation, Denmark), 1994, 165-180.