Bookbinding and the Conservation of Books
A Dictionary of Descriptive Terminology
pipey leather
A leather having a grain surface that forms coarse, sharp, and loose wrinkles when it is bent grain surface inward. It is a defect caused by the action of bacteria on the grain surface of the hide or skin. See also:
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