Bookbinding and the Conservation of Books
A Dictionary of Descriptive Terminology

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brushing

The process of developing a mild luster on the finished surface of a leather by the action of a rotary brush. The term is also used with reference to freeing the surface of leather of the fine fibrous dust created by buffing—i.e.. by drawing the skins between a pair of long rotary brushes. (363 )




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