Digital resources for cultural heritage collections

The Language of Bindings Thesaurus (LoB) is intended to provide a terminology to be used by anybody working with historic books.

This website is about paper, paper expertise, and history of paper. It provides resources in the following main application areas: historical research on paper in Europe, expertise of documents made of paper, measurement of structural characteristics of papers, technical support for the creation of new paper databases, introduction to digital paper studies.

Introduction to the most common types of bookpapers

List of links to online watermark databases and catalogues, curated by IPH - International Association of Paper Historians.