Preferred label

Starch wafer

Alternative label

Wafer; seal        

Scope note

A thin, flat disc or sheet of dried, starch-based adhesive that can be moistened and sandwiched between substrates, adhering them as it dries.      

Parent concept  

Adhesive        

uh-linked-data/concept/16

Related concept              

Wafer        

uh-linked-data/concept/583        

The Arts & Architecture ThesaurusⓇ Online, The Getty Research Institute. Concept uri

http://vocab.getty.edu/page/aat/300263433

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/518