Difference between revisions of "Blind tooling"
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"A method of decorating a book in which impressions are made in the covering material, usually leather or tawed skin, by means of heated tools, pallets, rolls, fillets, or combinations of one or more of these. As the name implies, blind tooling does not entail the use of leaf metal, foil, or any other coloring material, with the possible exception of carbon, which is sometimes used to darken the impressions."<ref name="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.</ref> | "A method of decorating a book in which impressions are made in the covering material, usually leather or tawed skin, by means of heated tools, pallets, rolls, fillets, or combinations of one or more of these. As the name implies, blind tooling does not entail the use of leaf metal, foil, or any other coloring material, with the possible exception of carbon, which is sometimes used to darken the impressions."<ref name="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.</ref> | ||
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English
[url=https://flic.kr/p/99ZhNn][img]https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5244/5352564009_b0a11618b9_b.jpg[/img][/url][url=https://flic.kr/p/99ZhNn]German binding, 15th century[/url] by [url=https://www.flickr.com/photos/nationallibrarynz_commons/]National Library NZ on The Commons[/url], on Flickr
noun
"A method of decorating a book in which impressions are made in the covering material, usually leather or tawed skin, by means of heated tools, pallets, rolls, fillets, or combinations of one or more of these. As the name implies, blind tooling does not entail the use of leaf metal, foil, or any other coloring material, with the possible exception of carbon, which is sometimes used to darken the impressions."<ref name="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.</ref>
Synonyms
Related terms
Blind lines, Blind stamping, Tooling
Translations for "blind tooling"
- Danish: (translation needed)
- Dutch: (translation needed)
- French: dorure à froid
- German: Blindvergoldung
- Italian: decorazaione a secco<ref name="Dizionario">Macchi, Federico, Livio Macchi, Milena Alessi, Michel Wittock, and Piccarda Quilici. Dizionario Illustrato Della Legatura. Milano: S. Bonnard, 2002. Print.</ref>, ferri a secco<ref name="Alessandro">Sidoti, Alessandro. Personal correspondence. 11 September 2014.</ref>
- Latin: (translation needed)
- Spanish: estampacion en seco
- Swedish: Blind Tryck
References
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