Preferred label

Letterlocking step-by-step instructions        

Alternative label

Step by step instructions; Step-by-step instructions; Letterlocking step by step instructions; Locking instructions        

Scope note

A series of written or drawn directions spelling out all the key steps in the process of folding and securing a flat substrate to become a letterpacket, including locking mechanisms, closure flap systems, manipulations described at group level, and orientation instructions.        

Parent concept

Letterlocking (discipline)       

uh-linked-data/concept/3        

Related concept                                                     

Letterlocking fold sequence       

uh-linked-data/concept/294

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/303