Bookbinding and the Conservation of Books
A Dictionary of Descriptive Terminology
fish scales
A particular grain pattern in a leather resembling the scales of a fish. Leather with this type of grain was at one time used by bookbinders who wanted a leather giving the effect of being blind tooled. (
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