Bookbinding and the Conservation of Books
A Dictionary of Descriptive Terminology

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Japanese silk

A type of SILK that is more closely woven and of finer threads than the usual silk. It is also a double warp fabric, i.e., the warp and filling threads are of the same thickness. Japanese silk is less likely to fray along cut edges than ordinary silk, which makes it useful for SILK FLYLEAVES .

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