marbled cloth
A book cloth patterned with variegated colors in
imitation of marble. The cloth is colored by
throwing on the colors in a manner similar to the
"marbling" of leather, or by laying the cloth on
the surface of the marbling size as in the
marbling of paper. Marbled cloth was first
introduced in about 1851 but went out of fashion
before the turn of the century. (236 , 369 )
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