Preferred label

Pleated letter                

Alternative label

Scope note

A distinctive letterlocking style that involves a narrow letterpacket made using roll folds or according folds followed by a short-edge to short-edge fold, and frequently secured with silk floss and sealing wax.        

Parent concept

Letter       

uh-linked-data/concept/219        

Related concept                                                     

Distinctive letterlocking style       

uh-linked-data/concept/104

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/381