Blocking

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Definition: en:The process or technique of impressing a design into the covering material of a book by means of a stamp or block having an engraved or etched surface.

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Language code"Language code" is a predefined property that represents a BCP47 formatted language code and is provided by Semantic MediaWiki.	Translated term	Source	Citation textThis property is a special property in this wiki.	Status	Skos:scopeNote
de	Blocken1	ICA	Crespo, Nogueira C, and Nogueira C. Crespo. Glossary of Basic Archival and Library Conservation Terms: English with Equivalents in Spanish, German, Italian, French, and Russian. München: K.G. Saur, 1988.
de	Prägen1	ICA	Crespo, Nogueira C, and Nogueira C. Crespo. Glossary of Basic Archival and Library Conservation Terms: English with Equivalents in Spanish, German, Italian, French, and Russian. München: K.G. Saur, 1988.
en	blocking2	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	The process or technique of impressing a design into the covering material of a book by means of a stamp or block having an engraved or etched surface.
es	estampación1	ICA	Crespo, Nogueira C, and Nogueira C. Crespo. Glossary of Basic Archival and Library Conservation Terms: English with Equivalents in Spanish, German, Italian, French, and Russian. München: K.G. Saur, 1988.
es	pegamiento		Citation needed!
fr	adhérence1	ICA	Crespo, Nogueira C, and Nogueira C. Crespo. Glossary of Basic Archival and Library Conservation Terms: English with Equivalents in Spanish, German, Italian, French, and Russian. München: K.G. Saur, 1988.
fr	estampage1	ICA	Crespo, Nogueira C, and Nogueira C. Crespo. Glossary of Basic Archival and Library Conservation Terms: English with Equivalents in Spanish, German, Italian, French, and Russian. München: K.G. Saur, 1988.	preferred
it	impressione1	ICA	Crespo, Nogueira C, and Nogueira C. Crespo. Glossary of Basic Archival and Library Conservation Terms: English with Equivalents in Spanish, German, Italian, French, and Russian. München: K.G. Saur, 1988.
it	adesività1	ICA	Crespo, Nogueira C, and Nogueira C. Crespo. Glossary of Basic Archival and Library Conservation Terms: English with Equivalents in Spanish, German, Italian, French, and Russian. München: K.G. Saur, 1988.

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When materials become adhered to one another because of dampness, or from adhesive striking through a porous material (such as cloth or paper). An example of blocking is when a stack of glossy magazines get wet and the pages stick to each other, but cannot be safely separated after drying.