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3 unusual facts about Cuir de Cordoue


Cuir de Cordoue

In the fifteenth or sixteenth century, the technique reached the Low Countries, first in Flanders and Brabant, where it was further developed.

Important examples of Cuir de Cordoue can be seen in the Netherlands in the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, the Stedelijk Museum De Lakenhal and a side chamber of the Pieterskerk, both in Leiden, the Museum Van Gijn in Dordrecht, the Maastricht town hall and the Drents Museum in Assen.

In the Dutch Republic gold leather-making flourished in the seventeenth century in Amsterdam, The Hague and Middelburg.


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