Preferred label

Substrate(places)

Alternative label

Letter-substrate; letter substrate; Epistolary writing substrate; Epistolary substrate"        

Scope note

The material forming the writing surface of a letter. In letterlocking, it is the substrate that is manipulated, secured shut, and subsequently opened. 

Parent concept

Object        

uh-linked-data/concept/607   

Related concept              

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/529