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This pioneering volume brings together specialists from contemporary craft and industry and from archaeology to examine both the material properties and the cultural dimensions of leather. The common occurrence of animal skin products through time, whether vegetable tanned leather, parchment, vellum, fat-cured skins or rawhide attest to its enduring versatility, utility and desirability. Typically grouped together as 'leather', the versatility of these materials is remarkable: they can be soft and supple like a textile, firm and rigid like a basket, or hard and watertight like a pot or gourd....

This innovative volume challenges contemporary views on material culture by exploring the relationship between wrapping materials and practices and the objects, bodies, and places that define them. Using examples as diverse as baby swaddling, Egyptian mummies, Celtic tombs, lace underwear, textile clothing, and contemporary African silk, the dozen archaeologist and anthropologist contributors show how acts of wrapping and unwrapping are embedded in beliefs and thoughts of a particular time and place. Employing methods of artifact analysis, microscopy, and participant observation, the...

Four mystery novellas follow the trail of a priceless pocket watch from the mid-1700s until the Great War as it crosses paths with four couples who seek to contain its mysterious force. This outstanding collaboration of authors includes Susanna Kearsley New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of The Winter Sea, A Desperate Fortune, and Bellewether Anna Lee Huber award-winning author of the national bestselling Lady Darby Mysteries Christine Trent author of the Lady of Ashes Victorian mystery series C. S. Harris bestselling author of the Sebastian St. Cyr Regency mystery series