Preferred label
Locking instructions
Alternative label
Scope note
The process from the start (a flat sheet of substrate) to the end (a secured letterpacket) of making a letterpacket. Includes presence and frequency of manipulations, fold sequences, orientation instructions, and locking mechanisms used to lock a packet, as well as writing manipulations if relevant.
Parent concept
Letterlocking (discipline)
uh-linked-data/concept/3
Related concept
Letterlocking step-by-step instructions
uh-linked-data/concept/303
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.