curl marble
A marble pattern consisting of red, blue, green,
and yellow (or orange), laid down on the marbling
size in that order, or, alternately, brown or red
only for one-color curls, and curled by means of a
frame which contains as many pegs as the required
number of curls, turned two or three times in a
circular direction. The curl pattern was in common
use from about 1660 to 1870, especially in France,
where it was much used for endpapers, but rarely
on the edges of books. (217 , 369 )
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