<div dir="ltr">The term "Tracery" in the Binding Thesaurus seems to be the closest thing to what you're looking for: <a href="https://rbms.info/vocabularies/binding/th176.htm">https://rbms.info/vocabularies/binding/th176.htm</a><div><br></div><div>The term has no scope note but does have the following comment: </div><div><br></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:verdana,arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">CM: Cutout leatherwork, or tracery, was never a common </span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:verdana,arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:verdana,arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">. technique in European bookbinding, but examples are known </span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:verdana,arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:verdana,arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">. from the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries ... Several of </span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:verdana,arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:verdana,arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">. the earliest European gold-tooled bookbindings, from both </span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:verdana,arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:verdana,arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">. Venice and Naples, have leather tracery decoration, which </span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:verdana,arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:verdana,arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">. was brought out, as in the Islamic archetypes, by being </span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:verdana,arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:verdana,arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">. laid over a bright azure ground." -- Needham.</span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:verdana,arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></span></div><div><font color="#000000" face="verdana, arial, sans-serif"><a href="https://rbms.info/vocabularies/binding/tr176.htm">https://rbms.info/vocabularies/binding/tr176.htm</a></font><br></div><div><div><br></div><div>The Ligatus Language of Binding Thesaurus has the term: "pierced covers," with scope note:<div><br></div><div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Covers in which a design has been created by removing pieces of the covering material to leave behind the required shapes or patterns. Pierced covers will invariably be used over a lining or underlay of another material such as a coloured woven silk textile.</blockquote><div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.ligatus.org.uk/lob/concept/2984">http://www.ligatus.org.uk/lob/concept/2984</a><div><br></div><div>Also, earlier this year, MARC approved a source code ($2 lobt) for the Language of Binding Thesaurus, which you could use locally, but it won't validate in OCLC yet due to a typo that they have said will be resolved in an upcoming implementation.</div><div><br></div><div>Neither Tracery nor Pierced covers specify the type of materials used, though, so you'd have to record another term such as Vellum bindings $2 rbbin separately for that. </div><div><br></div><div>I wonder if "Pierced bindings" should be added as a see reference to Tracery. </div><div><br></div><div>Matt</div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Dec 5, 2016 at 1:55 PM, Ann K.D. Myers <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:akdmyers@stanford.edu" target="_blank">akdmyers@stanford.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p>I recently received a reference question from a patron who is interested in seeing "pierced vellum bindings". This is not a term found in our catalog, and a search of OCLC only yielded 2 results. These are examples of the type of binding they are interested
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<p><a href="http://www.reid-cunningham.com/piercedvellumbin.html" class="m_-7662188519386206860OWAAutoLink" target="_blank">http://www.reid-cunningham.<wbr>com/piercedvellumbin.html</a><br>
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<p>I have been poking around in the RBMS Binding Thesaurus without success, looking for an alternate term to use to describe this style of decoration. Does anyone else have any ideas of how we might track these down?</p>
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