That was the name of my talk that I gave this week at a conference In Gremio - In Praxi, organised by Anna Bogumila Kowalska. The proceedings from the previous conferences from this series are part of my scientific library, and they are a rich source of information about archaeological leather and its conservation. It was a great pleasure...
In the winter of 2023 I got my hands on a rather nice commission for accessories for a Jihlava burgher from the first half of the 15th century. The brief was to create a scabbard for an existing dagger, a new girdle purse, shoes and a belt with metal fittings ideally according to the supplied picture from the Gelnhausen Codex...
A small step for mankind, but a slightly bigger step for a man like me - part of my research is published, and my article is in a real book <3 Last year, after visiting the Dordrecht museum depot again during the summer (with the goal just to sketch the few girdle purses that I still lacked details of from...
