POSTED ON FEBRUARY 29, 2012 Events, dear boy, events We have already spoken about how the SLTC conference on 28th April in Northampton looking interesting and the Textile conference (now postponed to October) but every year at Hong Kong the BLC along with the APLF have been running an afternoon seminar. The agenda this year […]
Samuel Pepys, his Diary and his Wallet; all connected by leather
POSTED ON AUGUST 26, 2011 Samuel Pepys, his Diary and his Wallet Just last week BBC Radio 4 was running the Diary of Samuel Pepys. He began writing it in 1660, when he was just 26. You can still hear it on the BBC Listen Again system which I think works free of charge worldwide. […]
COTANCE on leather labelling issues, and an item on famous leather chemists
POSTED ON JUNE 24, 2011 Two items below COTANCE press release June 2011 COTANCE complains against the adoption by the EU of a penalising descriptor for Leather on Textile clothing labels The representatives of the European Leather Industry meeting in Council in Rome regret the approval of the EU Regulation on Textile Names and Labelling […]
APLF, Pakistan and the Worshipful Company of Glovers
POSTED ON MARCH 9, 2011 It is getting intense The Corium Club dinner in Northampton is just a couple of weeks away on the 18th March. Paul Evans is the contact for tickets. It is to be held at the Oriental Garden Restaurant, 13 – 15 Sheep Street, Northampton NN1 2LT from 6:30pm and the guest speaker will […]
The Start of Chrome Tanning
Schultz and chrome tanning After the introduction of the Dongola tannage the Booth Group was to be involved in another technical development which was to lead to the transformation of the world leather industry. This was the initial discovery and development of what was to become the dominant tannage for the whole of the 20th […]
Crispin Odey
POSTED ON AUGUST 19, 2010 Crispin Odey “looks forward when others can only see the past” I was sitting in the Virgin Atlantic Clubhouse Lounge in Heathrow the other day and picked up a copy of a paper called Financial News. It is a paper I have rarely seen, and never read. Yet inside the […]
Crispin Odey “looks forward when others can only see the past”
Note: first published on University of Northampton blog, 19th August 2010 I was sitting in the Virgin Atlantic Clubhouse Lounge in Heathrow the other day and picked up a copy of a paper called Financial News. It is a paper I have rarely seen, and never read. Yet inside the edition that Virgin had […]
Leathersellers, ICLT and Boiled Buffalo
POSTED ON JUNE 14, 2010. Two items below Richard Thornton, Master of Leathersellers 1836-1837 Richard Thornton would have been proud to see how his money is being spent 170 years on. The June prize giving was one of the best in the period that Ann Tate has been Vice Chancellor. More parents turned up – […]
The Worshipful Company of Glovers..or how to get sheep across London Bridge
The Beadle and the Worshipful Company “The Beadle puts a livery gown on the candidate and says – I now clothe you in the Gown of the The Worshipful Company of Glovers of London”. There are a few occasions in one’s life which are truly memorable, that one will look back on and say that […]
The Greenpeace report on the Amazon and Northampton celebrates 100 years of Leather teaching
POSTED ON AUGUST 16, 2009 The Amazon is important for the leather industry One highlight of the summer has been the publication of the Greenpeace report “Slaughtering the Amazon” and the way the leather industry has reacted to. We had always thought that cutting down the rain forest was about illegal logging but it turns […]