Mike Redwood
History
21st January 2013
Leather Technology in the 13th century
We talk loudly today about leather being a high performance material, but it has clearly been a key material in many technologies going back millenia. My university tutor, Stanley Briggs, used to enjoy telling us that leather had been a vital element in almost every aspect of the development of civiliation. It had been used […]
29th February 2012
SLTC Conference, Corium Club and Kano
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 […]
25th August 2011
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. […]
16th June 2011
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 […]
8th March 2011
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 […]
26th January 2011
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 […]
19th August 2010
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 […]
19th August 2010
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 […]
7th June 2010
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 – […]
7th November 2009
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 […]