Bookbinding and the Conservation of Books
A Dictionary of Descriptive Terminology

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tapa cloth

A coarse type of "cloth" produced in the Far East from the mashed bark of the paper mulberry and breadfruit trees and used as a covering material for books. It is usually decorated with geometric patterns. (332 )






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