Book Review: Fish Leather Tanning and Sewing by Lotta Rahme and Dag Hartman

Abstract

Judging from the extensive bibliography in this book, little to no literature exists on fish leather tanning in English. A quick Google and Amazon search reveals that a good general book on leather tanning includes at least one chapter on fish, reptile and other "alternative" skins. There are also video tutorials on YouTube, but until now there were not any books specifically on fish leather tanning written in English.

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• iron age
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• late middle ages
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