Preferred label

Independent folding                

Alternative label

Scope note

A method of folding in which two or more leaves of substrate lying on top of one another are folded separately and in a different manner from one another. When unfolded, the crease patterns on each leaf will differ. Independent folding is often seen on the two leaves of a conjugate bifolium.       

Parent concept

Compound fold        

uh-linked-data/concept/61

Related concept 

Fold        

uh-linked-data/concept/146        

The Arts & Architecture ThesaurusⓇ Online, The Getty Research Institute. Concept uri

Not in AAT        

The Language of Bindings Thesaurus (LoB) Concept uri

Not in LoB

Scope note source reference

Source

Jana Dambrogio, Daniel Starza Smith, and the Unlocking History Research Group. Letterlocking, The Hidden History of the Letter. Cambridge and London: MIT Press, 2025.

Unlocking History Concept uri

uh-linked-data/concept/190