TY - JOUR AU - Blusiewicz, Karolina PY - 2021/12/21 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - The technical level of small-town shoemaking in Gdańsk Pomerania in the 14th century JF - Archaeologia Historica Polona JA - AHP VL - 28 IS - SE - Artykuły DO - 10.12775/AHP.2020.012 UR - https://apcz.umk.pl/AHP/article/view/36650 SP - 295–314 AB - <p>Based on the&nbsp;late medieval leather artefacts from Puck, Gniew, Lębork and Chojnice, an attempt was made to assess the&nbsp;level of&nbsp;shoemaking production at&nbsp;that time. Microscopic analyses of&nbsp;leather goods and production waste proved that in&nbsp;the&nbsp;field of&nbsp;tanning the&nbsp;activities related to the&nbsp;mechanical treatment of&nbsp;leather were carefully performed, although with insufficient professional knowledge concerning the&nbsp;process.&nbsp;The results of&nbsp;the&nbsp;identification of&nbsp;the&nbsp;animal origin of&nbsp;the&nbsp;leather confirmed the&nbsp;purposeful selection of&nbsp;raw material with different properties for individual footwear elements and the&nbsp;ability to properly cut it.&nbsp;The quality of&nbsp;the&nbsp;shoemaking products was highly rated in&nbsp;terms of&nbsp;technology and style. However, in&nbsp;the&nbsp;analysed collections a&nbsp;clearly perceptible difference in&nbsp;craftsmanship and assortment of&nbsp;products from Gniew and the&nbsp;other three towns was noticed.</p> ER -