Buckram

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This article is about the cloth. For Buckrams (Allium ursinum), see Ramsons.

Buckram is a stiff cloth, made of cotton or linen, which is used to cover, and protect, a book. Buckram can also be used to stiffen clothes.

In the Middle Ages, "bokeram" was fine cotton cloth, not stiff, the name derived from Bokhara, where it originally came from.^[1]

Buckram is commonly used in making cloth hats and bonnets, in which case white buckram is most commonly used.

[edit] References

1. ^ Donald King in Jonathan Alexander & Paul Binski (eds), Age of Chivalry, Art in Plantagenet England, 1200-1400, p157, Royal Academy/Weidenfeld & Nicholson, London 1987

[edit] See also

• Bookbinding