Preferred label

Treated edge        

Alternative label

Edge treatment           

Scope note

A substrate edge that has been decorated. Traditionally, treated edges are trimmed, sanded, and primed prior to receiving layers of pigment or metal leaf, but any decorated edge can be described as treated.         

Parent concept

Edge (component boundary)        

uh-linked-data/concept/119        

Related concept         

Edge (substrate boundary)        

uh-linked-data/concept/122

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/553