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Fish Tales, experiments with fish skin for bookbinding
The New Bookbinder: Journal of Designer Bookbinders (2020)
  • Peter D Verheyen
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Abstract
Tanned fish skin has been used in binding for decorative elements such as inlays and onlays, but it has a much longer history of use for clothing, sword handles, objets d’art, and other applications across global cultures. This article describes the history of fish skin in bookbinding, how to prepare parchment, basic materials testing, and shows bindings works by the author and others.
Keywords
  • Fish,
  • Parchment,
  • Leather,
  • bookbinding
Disciplines
Publication Date
2020
Citation Information
Peter D Verheyen. "Fish Tales, experiments with fish skin for bookbinding" The New Bookbinder: Journal of Designer Bookbinders Vol. 40 (2020) p. 26 - 34
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/peter_verheyen/59/
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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons CC_BY-NC-SA International License.