Preferred label

Tuck (manipulation) (techniques)                

Alternative label

Scope note

The insertion of a closure flap or lock into a pocket made by folding the substrate. One of the principal manipulations of letterlocking. All even numbers in the letterlocking categories chart represent categories featuring a tuck.        

Parent concept

Letterlocking manipulation        

uh-linked-data/concept/298        

Related concept      

Locking mechanism        

uh-linked-data/concept/319

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/564