Bookbinding and the Conservation of Books
A Dictionary of Descriptive Terminology

Table of Contents

T

• tab
• tab index
• table book
• tablet
• tablet-back board
• tack
• tacketing
• tacking
• tack range
• tack stage
• tacky-dry
• tag
• tag board
• tail
• tailband; tailcap
• tail edge
• tail margin
• take off
• talc
• talipot palm
• tall copy
• tambour
• tan
• tannery
• tannic acid
• tanning
• tapa cloth
• tapes
• tape sewing
• tape slotting
• tapestry stitch
• taping
• tara
• tar board
• tarnish
• tawing
• tearing resistance
• tear ratio
• T.E.G.
• tellers
• temper
• temperature conversion
• template
• tender
• tenon saw
• tensile energy absorption
• tensile strength
• tension
• ternion
• terra alba
• tertiary colors
• terylene
• texodern
• text block
• textile bindings
• texture
• t4s
• Thames board
• thermoplastic binding
• thermoplastic resins
• thermosetting
• thickness
• thinner
• thirty-sixmo
• thirty-twomo
• thixotropy
• thong binder
• thongs
• Thou, Jacques Auguste de
• Thouvenin, Joseph
• thread count
• threadless binding
• three and one half times the width method
• three-dimensional appliques
• three-knife trimmer
• three on
• three-plane watermark
• three-quarter binding
• three-quarter leather
• three times the width method
• three up
• throwing colors
• throw out
• throw up
• thumbhole
• thumb index
• thymol
• tide marks
• tidying
• tied down
• tie down
• ties
• tight back
• tight fit
• tight joint
• tinny
• tip
• tip-on
• tipped endpapers
• tipped in
• tipping
• tipping front and back
• tipping machine
• tips
• tissue papers
• titanium dioxide
• titanium potassium oxalate
• title
• titled
• title leather
• title mounted
• title page
• title roll
• tizra
• toggling
• toluene
• tongue and slot
• toning
• tooling
• tooling leaf
• tooth
• top
• top combs
• top cover
• top edge gilt
• top finished
• top margin
• top of the hide
• torn paper designs
• tortoise shell
• tortoise shell covers
• Tory, Geoffrey
• total transmittance
• t pattern
• tracing paper
• trade binding
• traditional format
• tragacanth
• tranchfille chapiteau
• transfer binder
• transfer box
• transfer marble
• transitory materials
• translucency
• transmittance
• transparency
• transparency ratio
• transparent marble
• transparent vellum
• transverse porosity
• Trautz, Georges
• tree calf
• trial binding
• triethanolamine
• trim
• trimmed
• trimmed before sewing
• trimmed four sides
• trimmed in the round
• trimmed in the square
• trimmed size
• trimming
• trimming out
• trimming to recorded size
• trindles
• triple lining
• triple liner and headbanding machine
• tripoli
• triptych
• true skin
• trypsin
• t.s
• tub
• tub sized
• tub-size press
• tuck
• tumbling drum
• tumeric
• Turkey leather
• Turkey marble
• Turkey morocco
• Turkey papers
• turnaround time
• turn-ins
• turning-in steel
• turpentine
• twelvemo
• twenty-fourmo
• twin-wire paper
• twisted pineapple
• two-letter index
• two-line tool
• two on
• two on and one off
• two page spread
• two sheets on
• two-shot method
• two-sided sheet
• two up
• tying down
• tying up
• tying-up boards
• type
• type area
• type face
• type font
• type metal
• type pallet
• typescript
• type size
• typewriter paper
• typography