Against the grain
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English
adj
"Paper which has been folded at right angles to the direction in which the fibers tend to lie...The term applies specifically to machine-made paper, as handmade paper has no definite grain direction."<ref name="Etherington">Roberts, Matt T. and Don Etherington. "Against the grain". Bookbinding and the Conservation of Books, A Dictionary of Descriptive Terminology. Conservation Online, 1994. Web. December 3 2015.</ref>
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{{Concept translation|language=fr|label=contre le fil]], contre le grain, à contre-fil, [[en travers|label=preferred}} German: (translation needed)
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