RBMS Controlled Vocabularies: Binding Terms

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: Materials and treatment (Gathering term; do not assign)

:     SN: Gathering term; do not use; index under a narrower term.

Leather bindings

. Calf bindings

.. Marbled calf bindings

... Tree calf bindings

.. Mottled calf bindings

.. Sprinkled calf bindings

.. Stained calf bindings

..     SN: Use for leather stained in ways other than by marbling,
.. mottling, or sprinkling. This includes staining by means
.. of blocking, stencilling, or free-hand design.

. Cuir-ciselé bindings

.     CM: Cuir-ciselé or cut leather is a self-explanatory decorative
. technique: the leather is given patterns inscribed by a
. knife or other sharp tool."--Needham

. Deerskin bindings

.     HN: Term added 2/97.

. Diced leather bindings

. Goatskin bindings

.. Morocco bindings

. Kangaroo leather bindings

.     HN: Term added 2/97.

. Molded leather bindings

. Ostrich leather bindings

.     HN: Term added 2/97.

. Pigskin bindings

. Relievo bindings

.     HN: Term added 01/01.

.     SN: Use for bindings of deeply embossed leather executed in
. Leake's patent relievo process (1846-1850s).

. Reversed leather bindings

. Russia leather bindings

. Sealskin bindings

.     HN: Term added 6/02.

. Shagreen bindings

. Sheepskin bindings

.. Lambskin bindings

.. Marbled sheepskin bindings

..     HN: Proposed by Rose-Ann Movsovic; term approved 1/2006

..     SN: Use for sheepsking bindings whose surface has been treated
.. with acid to produce a marbled effect.

.. Roan bindings

.. Tree sheep bindings

..     CM: In case of doubt use Tree calf bindings.

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