POSTED ON OCTOBER 5, 2008 The danger of bad science in good hands It was only a week ago that we were listening to Dr Heinz-Peter Germann give a very clear and straight forward Procter Memorial Lecture about the current technical status of tanning from an environmental stance at the SLTC conference in the UK. […]
To see a world in a grain of sand and heaven in a wild flower
(First published by APLF, Hong Kong, in my Cool Hunting Column) One of the famous characters of the 20th century leather industry was Bert Childs, a hide and skin trader from Liverpool. His wife used to collect sand as she travelled around the world and after staying with them in the early nineteen eighties I […]
Old Leather Dogs and new tanning drums
POSTED ON SEPTEMBER 28, 2008 two items below More awards please The one thing that brings our old friends out of the woodwork for the SLTC Annual Conference is the award of Life Membership…..perhaps the committee needs to establish an annual award to keep all retirees and old friends coming back year after year. Certainly […]
Catskills and Kasur
POSTED ON. AUGUST 23, 2008 Two Items August rains and American parties They have not had a great summer in the US this year but the last two weeks in New England have been just fine, and it is hard to think that just a few days ago we were in famous tanning towns such […]
LFRG; Pakistani Alumni: Metz: rue des tanneurs
LFRG: initials to remember This was first posted on University of Northampton on July 24 2008. There are two items from July 2008 here. I am guessing that for us there will be one really memorable event of this summer and that will be the founding of the LFRG. Now what does this stand for? […]
Traditional Tanneries of Marrakech
Marrakech Traditional Tanning In 2000, when I was giving a couple of talks as part of the Meet in Africa symposiums my wife and I stayed on in Morocco and visited the traditional tanneries of Fez. Even spending quite a lot of time down in amongst the pits it was quite hard to get a […]
Tilman Taeger at Leathersellers and 2009 thoughts
POSTED ON JUNE 26, 2008. Two items are below from my Northampton blog 2009 Centenary events start to take shape It’s more or less July now and the weather for Wimbledon is better than normal. We are sitting in the garden catching the strains from Glastonbury. Not a bad way to spend such a dry […]
United States Leather Company: a tale of power and forests
JUNE 2, 2008 United States Leather Company: a tale of power and forests Right now I am working on the history of the United States Leather Company. It is an amazing story. It was formed in 1893 when some 70 companies owning over 100 tanneries got together to form a new corporation in the hope […]
Sichuan University and more
POSTED ON MAY 22, 2008 Sichuan and our good friends Over the last year China has frequently been the focus of these columns, and it was only six weeks ago that we were in Chengdu and Deyang. Both are in Sichuan Province at Chengdu is about 50km from the epicentre and Deyang, although a little […]
Clever Footwear and APLF 2008
Two posts from my Northampton blog posted on the the 10th and 27th No blow with BASF It’s Sunday and the sun is shining and we are just back from Lineapelle. I am sitting in the garden blowing through a tube sent to me by BASF. One moment it is easy and the next impossible […]