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  2. Inlays and onlays (bookbinding) - Wikipedia

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    Leather inlays, which are similar in form to inlays in woodworking, are shaped pieces of leather the same thickness as the covering leather on a book. A piece of leather the same shape, size, and thickness as the inlay is removed from the covering leather, and the inlay is placed into the resulting space. The edge of the inlay can be tooled, in ...

  3. UV marker - Wikipedia

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    An ultraviolet (UV) marker is a pen whose marks are fluorescent but transparent; the marks can be seen only under an ultraviolet light. They are commonly used in security situations to identify belongings or to prevent the reproduction of unauthorized banknotes. UV pens can now be bought at some stationery shops to securely mark items of high ...

  4. Limp binding - Wikipedia

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    Limp binding of an incunable, made of vellum with broken book clasp of the 15th century. Limp binding is a bookbinding method in which the book has flexible cloth, leather, vellum, or (rarely) paper sides. [1] When the sides of the book are made of vellum, the bookbinding method is also known as limp vellum. [2]

  5. Scratch and sniff - Wikipedia

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    The 1986 Infocom interactive fiction game Leather Goddesses of Phobos came with a scratch and sniff card, as part of the game's feelies. The 1981 movie Polyester , directed, produced, and written by John Waters , was released featuring a gimmick called "Odorama", whereby viewers could smell what they saw on screen through scratch and sniff cards.

  6. Red rot - Wikipedia

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    The peroxide combines with residual tannins in the leather to oxidize proteins, creating ammonium sulfate and ammonium bisulfate. [2] Red rot is also caused by problems in the tanning or in the bookbinding. In the tanning examples are: sulfuric acid residue, use of contaminated water and incomplete tanning. The bookbinding process can cause red ...

  7. Treasure binding - Wikipedia

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    A treasure binding or jewelled bookbinding is a luxurious book cover using metalwork in gold or silver, jewels, or ivory, perhaps in addition to more usual bookbinding material for book covers such as leather, velvet, or other cloth. [1]

  8. Signature mark - Wikipedia

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    At the bottom of page 49, the signature mark "3" represents the number of the gathering. A signature mark, in traditional bookbinding, is a letter, number or combination of either or both, which is printed at the bottom of the first page, or leaf, of a section. The section is itself referred to as a signature, also called collation or gathering ...

  9. Bookmark - Wikipedia

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    The earliest existing bookmark dates from the 6th century AD and it is made of ornamented leather lined with vellum on the back and was attached with a leather strap to the cover of a Coptic codex (Codex A, MS 813 Chester Beatty Library, Dublin). [2] It was found near Sakkara, Egypt, under the ruins of the monastery Apa Jeremiah.