Leather Conservation Centre
Founded in 1978, the Leather Conservation Centre is a non-profitmaking organisation with charitable status. The Centre offers a comprehensive service in the conservation of leather objects of historical, cultural or artistic importance. As well as practical conservation, the Centre also undertakes training and research, provides advice, supplies conservation materials and produces a range of publications. In 1997 the Leather Conservation Centre moved into a new purpose-built facility adjacent to the British School of Leather Technology, with the aid of a substantial donation from the Leathersellers' Company Charitable Fund. On the Company's initiative, some of the first work undertaken in the new building was the conservation of 16th century leather retrieved from the wreck of the Mary Rose.
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