RBMS Controlled Vocabularies: Paper Terms

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:: Types of paper (Gathering term; do not assign)

::     SN: Gathering term, do not use; index under narrower term. The
:: narrower terms are the traditional categories used by
:: papermakers, users, and scholars; these categories are not
:: mutually exclusive.

: Types of paper by uses or names

:     SN: Gathering term, do not use; index under narrower term.
: Includes names of specific kinds of papers created for
: specific uses; often, but not always, the use is suggested
: by the name of the paper, e.g., Currency papers. Many
: papers' names are arbitrary; some are related to use, content, inventor, manufacturer, color, size, or other feature. The present thesaurus contains only the more common names and includes no commercial brand names. This category does not include decorated papers, since decorations are features of papers.

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