boarding (skin techniques)

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boarding (skin techniques)
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The process of softening a piece of tanned or alum-tawed skin and/or enhancing its natural grain by rolling the dampened skin backwards and forwards hairside to hairside under a wooden board held in the hand or strapped to the fore-arm.
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Source

Middleton (1994, 4th ed.)

Bernard Middleton, A history of English Craft Bookbinding Techniques, New Castle, London, Oak Knoll Press, The British Library, 1994 (4th ed.)

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p. 119

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