Bookbinding and the Conservation of Books
A Dictionary of Descriptive Terminology

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silking

The process of applying a thin, transparent, finely meshed silk cloth to one or both sides of a leaf as a means of repairing or preserving it. A leaf so treated is said to have been "silked." In general, the process may be said to he reversible. See also: SILK .




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