page_title: Buckram
hierarchical_section_title: Buckram
caption_attribution_description: English: This is a composite of two photos taken on June 8, 2004, with a Sony Cybershot DSC-F828, in the Homer Babbidge Library. The two images were cropped and copy-pasted together, then level-adjusted and unsharp-masked with The Gimp, and scaled from 1392x1300 to 600x560, and saved at a quality of 0.85. The photo depicts two sides of a sample strip of buckram. The sample is courtesy of the preservation department at the Homer Babbidge Library.
context_page_description: Buckram is a stiff cotton cloth with a loose weave, often muslin. The fabric is soaked in a sizing agent such as wheat starch paste, glue, or pyroxylin, then dried. When rewetted or warmed, it can be shaped to create durable firm fabric for book covers, hats, and elements of clothing.
  In the Middle Ages, "bokeram", as it was known then, was fine cotton cloth, not stiff. The etymology of the term is uncertain; the commonly mentioned derivation from Bokhara is, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, uncertain.
context_section_description: Buckram is a stiff cotton (occasionally  linen or horse hair) cloth with a loose weave, often muslin.  The fabric is soaked in a sizing agent such as wheat starch paste, glue (such as PVA glue), or  pyroxylin (gelatinized nitrocellulose, developed around 1910), then dried.  When rewetted or warmed, it can be shaped to create durable firm fabric for book covers, hats, and elements of clothing.
  In the Middle Ages, "bokeram", as it was known then, was fine cotton cloth, not stiff.  The etymology of the term is uncertain; the commonly mentioned derivation from Bokhara is, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, uncertain.
caption: Buckram can be shiny or dull.
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