Strawboard

Description

A coarse, inexpensive, yellow cardboard. Strawboard is made from unbleached straw pulp. It is stiff and breaks easily. Strawboard contains few impurities and has good permanence. It is used for boxes, crates, egg cartons, and packing partitions. For new types of MDF called Strawboard and Wheatboard, please see Ecoboard.

Synonyms and Related Terms

straw board; straw-board (Br.); Dutch boards

Sources Checked for Data in Record

• The Dictionary of Paper, American Paper Institute, New York, Fourth Edition, 1980

• E.J.LaBarre, Dictionary and Encyclopedia of Paper and Paper-making, Swets & Zeitlinger, Amsterdam, 1969

• Matt Roberts, Don Etherington, Bookbinding and the Conservation of Books: a Dictionary of Descriptive Terminology, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington DC, 1982

• Book and Paper Group, Paper Conservation Catalog, AIC, 1984, 1989

• G.S.Brady, Materials Handbook, McGraw-Hill Book Co., New York, 1971 Comment: p. 583

• Art and Architecture Thesaurus Online, http://www.getty.edu/research/tools/vocabulary/aat/, J. Paul Getty Trust, Los Angeles, 2000