2021年3月5日 · There were a number of specialty tanners (depending on the type/quality of leather being created) as well as taw (y)ers or whittawers who tawed skin (rather than tanning it) by using alum and salts (for example) to create a white leather. Grömer, Russ-Popa, and Saliari discuss this process at length on page 72.

2025年1月26日 · Rabbit skins, after the introduction of the animal to the English mainland in the early thirteenth century, quickly became popular, and hare, fox, wild cat, and otter skins were plentiful. Skins reached the local market from a variety of sources.

The present study investigates the utility of animal skin from Antiquity to the Medieval Period, compiling archaeological finds, pictorial and written sources, most of which derive from Europe and the eastern Mediterranean. We suggest that skin, leather, fur, and parchment have been exten - sively used to fulfil multiple necessities.

2022年7月20日 · The papers are meant to create a picture of how the use of skins and furs is structured in different medieval contexts and to demonstrate the capital role of skins in elaborating the fluidity between humans and animals in the Middle Ages.

The present study investigates the utility of animal skin from Antiquity to the Medieval Period, compiling archaeological finds, pictorial and written sources, most of which derive from Europe and the eastern Mediterranean. We suggest that skin, leather, fur, and parchment have been extensively used to fulfil multiple necessities.

The present study investigates the utility of animal skin from Antiquity to the Medieval Period, compiling archaeological finds, pictorial and written sources, most of which derive from...

6 天之前 · The broadest distinction drawn by medieval furriers was between ekervel, escureuil, scurell, and other variants of the latin sciurus, names applied to both the animal and its skin, and those skins known as greywerk, bontwerk, varium opus, or vair.

2024年7月8日 · During recent excavation work along Rua do Registo Civil in Portugal, archaeologists unearthed two medieval-era storage pits containing over 200 domestic cat bone pieces. Shallow incisions found on the bones indicate that the cats were likely skinned for their pelts, a practice that was common in other parts of Europe during the Middle Ages.

2025年1月24日 · During the Middle Ages the working of skins of all sorts, by whatever name the craftsmen were known and whatever processes they were carrying out, was a familiar sight. The sutor was one of the most important men in Anglo-Saxon England.

There are only two main methods of skinning: open skinning and case skinning (Churchill 1987; Kellogg 1984). Very simply, open skinning is where an incision is made along the belly of the animal, and the pelt opened out fl at. Case skinning is where an incision is made from one back leg to the other, passing around the vent, and the