Calfskin stained with a treelike design and used in bookbinding.
树纹小牛皮革（用于书籍装订）
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This workshop will cover two traditional 18th century English techniques, tree calf and the Cambridge panel, as well as leather dyeing and staining and other techniques including the cat's paw pattern, paste-resist and simple sprinkling.
A nice copy in full tree calf with elaborately gilt backstrip.
Contemporary and uniform half tree calf, gold-tooled spines with red and black labels, tree-marbled sides, sprinkled edges.
The first in line, Life of Captain Cook was bound in full tree calf to match the rest of the set.
Bound in tree calf with raised bands, leather spine label and gold decorations.
Definition of tree calf in US English:
tree calf
noun
Calfskin stained with a treelike design and used in bookbinding.
树纹小牛皮革（用于书籍装订）
Example sentencesExamples
The first in line, Life of Captain Cook was bound in full tree calf to match the rest of the set.
This workshop will cover two traditional 18th century English techniques, tree calf and the Cambridge panel, as well as leather dyeing and staining and other techniques including the cat's paw pattern, paste-resist and simple sprinkling.
Contemporary and uniform half tree calf, gold-tooled spines with red and black labels, tree-marbled sides, sprinkled edges.
A nice copy in full tree calf with elaborately gilt backstrip.
Bound in tree calf with raised bands, leather spine label and gold decorations.