Caring for Cultural Material 1

Caring for Cultural Material 2

Damage and Decay

Managing Collections

Managing People

Handling, Transportation, Storage and Display

Glossary

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Caring for Cultural Material 2
In this volume:
– Textiles
arrow Leather
– Wood
– Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Cultural Material
– Metals
– Outdoor Collections
– Acknowledgments
Leather
In this chapter:
– Objectives
– Introduction
– What is leather?
– What are the most common types of damage?
– Common causes of damage
– Storing and displaying leather
– Treatments
– Cleaning leather
– Lubrication of leather
– Treatments of attached metal fittings
– Summary of conditions for storage and display
– Leather in Australia’s climatic zones
  MORE ABOUT LEATHER
arrow Skin
– Collagen
– Untanned skin products
– Leather
– Spews
– Additional cleaning methods
– Humidity chamber
– Lubricant formulations
– For further reading
– Self-evaluation quiz
– Answers to self-evaluation quiz

 

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Leather

Skin

Skin is a complex structure made up of:

  • hair;

  • sweat glands;

  • fat;

  • blood vessels; and

  • a layer of collagen fibre bundles containing protein. In the corium, or the body of the skin, these fibres are large and losely-woven. In the protective grain layer, these fibres are finely and tightly-packed.

The grain layer or hair side is the outside surface layer of the skin. The underside of the skin is known as the flesh side.

 

 

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