French curl marble

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Definition: en:A marble pattern that has been used for endpapers, particularly in France, since about 1660. The pattern is made on a marbling size of gum tragacanth, and the colors are dropped on in the same manner as with the nonpareil marble.

The curls are made with the use of a wooden frame constructed in the form of a small harrow, each parallel bar being set with as many tapering wooden pegs as there are curls required on the sheet to be marbled. The difficulty in executing this pattern is to "catch" the curls before they lose their shape.

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en	French curl marble1	Etherington	Roberts, Don., et al. Bookbinding and the Conservation of Books : a Dictionary of Descriptive Terminology. Library of Congress : For Sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. G.P.O., 1982.	preferred	A marble pattern that has been used for endpapers, particularly in France, since about 1660. The pattern is made on a marbling size of gum tragacanth, and the colors are dropped on in the same manner as with the nonpareil marble. The curls are made with the use of a wooden frame constructed in the form of a small harrow, each parallel bar being set with as many tapering wooden pegs as there are curls required on the sheet to be marbled. The difficulty in executing this pattern is to "catch" the curls before they lose their shape.