Of endbands and bees: or of the troubles and limits of terminology in bookbinding descriptions
By Georgios Boudalis
Since 2010 I have been working on a book about endbands used in codices bound according to various bookbinding traditions of the eastern Mediterranean. As this work now approaches completion, I thought it might be interesting to present the problems I faced and some thoughts on how to overcome the ever present issue of terminology—an issue valid for the myriad natural and human-made things that surround us.
» Source: International Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works