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.

Stamped or tooled bindings

. Blind tooled bindings

. Blocked bindings

.     HN: Scope note added 6/2007; disambiguated from
. "panel-stamped bindings" based on literary warrant.

.     SN: Use for cloth or leather bindings, originally appearing in
. the 1820s, with blind, gilt, or color designs made from the
. impression of relief blocks.

.. Gold blocked bindings

..     SN: Bindings with a design impressed by a block through gold.

. Gold tooled bindings

.     CM: Gold tooling--the bonding of gold leaf to leather by means
. of heated stamps."--Needham

. Panel-stamped bindings

.     HN: Approved 6/2007. Disambiguated from "blocked bindings"
. based on literary warant.

.     SN: Use for leather bindings with designs in relief from the
. impression of intaglio dies, produced predominantly in the
. 15th and 16th centuries.

. Pinhead style bindings

. Platinum tooled bindings

. Pointillé tooling

. Punch-dotting

.     CM: A type of decoration of Islamic origin in which small
. punched depressions in the leather are filled with a kind
. of colored gesso." -- Needham

. Semé

. Silver tooled bindings

. Types of tools

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

.. Fillet tools

.. Geometric tools

.. Gouge tools

.. Hatched tools

.. Medallion tools

.. Open tools

.. Pallet tools

.. Plaquette stamps

.. Solid tools

.. Vegetal tools

.. Zoomorphic tools

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