{"pk":3958,"title":"Leatherworking","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Leather was used throughout Egypt’s history, although its importance varied. It had many applications, ranging from the functional (footwear and wrist-protectors, for example) to the decorative (such as chariot leather). Although leather items were manufactured using simple technology, leatherworking reached a high level of craftsmanship in the New Kingdom. Among the most important leather-decoration techniques employed in Pharaonic Egypt, and one especially favored for chariot leather, was the use of strips of leather of various colors sewn together in partial overlap. In post-Pharaonic times there was a distinct increase in the variety of leather-decoration techniques. Vegetable tanning was most likely introduced by the Romans; the Egyptians employed other methods of making skin durable, such as oil curing.","language":"en","license":null,"keywords":[{"word":"leather"},{"word":"skin"},{"word":"hide"},{"word":"rawhide"},{"word":"Archaeological Anthropology"},{"word":"Near Eastern Languages and Societies"}],"section":"Material Culture, Art and Architecture","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/13g5n8th","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"André","middle_name":"J.","last_name":"Veldmeijer","name_suffix":"","institution":"","department":"None"}],"date_submitted":"2007-11-02T07:00:00Z","date_accepted":"2007-11-02T07:00:00Z","date_published":"2008-05-16T07:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"","type":"","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/nelc_uee/article/3958/galley/2534/download/"}]}