Preferred label

Recursive perforation                

Alternative label

Scope note

"A technique in which the lock laces through itself and the letterpacket multiple times."        

Parent concept

Distinctive letterlocking style         

uh-linked-data/concept/104        

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/419