Preferred label

Roll                

Alternative label

Scroll; Letterlocking manipulation

Scope note

The rotation of a substrate onto itself in order to form the whole or part of the substrate into a scroll or cylindrical shape. Unlike folds, rolls do not leave sharp creases. One of the principal manipulations of letterlocking.        

Parent concept

Letterlocking manipulation        

uh-linked-data/concept/298        l

Related concept   

Letterlocking category        

uh-linked-data/concept/225

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/432