Reference Materials
- Watch our video on the Siegel Effect to test for Vegetable Tanned Leather
- Watch our video on the Ewald Effect- for Oil Tanned Leathers
- Leather for Libraries recommendations for choosing the best leathers for bookbinding, per British Publication, approximately 1905
- Betty Haines re: Archival Bookbinding Leather
- Genuine Morocco published in Guild of Bookworkers. Author Steven Siegel
- Traceability is a video showing traceability for European Calfskins
- Sample Sulfur Free Calf
- “The Romance of Leather”, published 1937, by Tanners’ Council of America – This document contains a wealth of information on the “basics” of leather
- Report of the Committee on Leather for Bookbinding, Royal Sociey of Arts (Great Britain), London, 1905 – please use Adobe Acrobat to open
- Affidavits for Archival Native Tanned Sokoto Leather From 3 museum experts in Sokoto, Nigeria
- Native Tanned -Colored Archival Sokoto Leather
- Dry Fiber Ageing Analysis SF Calf vs 5 other bookbinding calfskins