Bookbinding and the Conservation of Books
A Dictionary of Descriptive Terminology
batwing skiver
A bookbinder's expression for the thinnest
SKIVER
produced. It is made from the flesh split of sheepskin, and was at one time used for linings and title labels for law and similar books. (
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