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the art of raising the dead flat into something you can read with your eyes closed
means To carve, stamp, or mold a design so it stands up in relief from a flat surface, raised enough to feel under the fingertips.
from From Old French 'embocer,' built from 'en-' (to make, to put into) and 'boce' — a swelling, a bump, a knob — the same 'boce' that gave English 'boss,' meaning the raised stud at the center of a shield or the round knot on an ornament. So to emboss is literally 'to make a bump,' and the bossy boss of an office is, etymologically, a different word entirely (that one's Dutch). The bump-boss traces back through Latin toward the Vulgar Latin '*bottia,' a swelling — fitting for a word whose whole job is to swell flat things up into shape.
- blind embossing
- Inkless impressions that say luxury without a single color
- braille kinship
- Same raised-dot logic now reads under fingertips worldwide
- die pressure
- Tons of force squeeze paper between metal counterparts
- coin origin
- Ancient mints embossed faces to fake nothing and prove value
- opposite twin
- Deboss pushes down; emboss pushes proudly up
gutenberg bible — first major book printed with movable type, 1455, featured embossed leather bindings
dollar bill — u.s. currency features embossed portraits and text, produced by bureau of engraving and printing
leather book covers — medieval manuscripts like the lindisfarne gospels were bound in embossed leather with raised designs