Bookbinding and the Conservation of Books
A Dictionary of Descriptive Terminology

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umber

A natural product composed of magnesium silicate and iron compounds, and used as a coloring pigment. The "false" umbers are brown ochers produced artificially by burning the hydrated iron earths. Burnt umber is the calcined raw umber. (60 , 235 )






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