Bookbinding and the Conservation of Books
A Dictionary of Descriptive Terminology
buff leather
A leather which has a yellowish, cream or white surface and is finished with a soft, velvet nap. It is produced from cowhide from which the grain layer has been removed by
FRIZZING
. It is an oil-tanned leather. (
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