Bookbinding and the Conservation of Books
A Dictionary of Descriptive Terminology
feather work
A style of decoration, originally used on Irish bindings of the 18th century, emphasizing curved lines probably made with a gouge, which radiate outward from a central point producing a delicate and very rich featherlike pattern. (
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