Millboard

OR: Trace the pattern onto cardstock, and then glue that to millboard, which is the thick non corrugated cardboard that they make book covers and the backs of sketchbooks etc from or onto masonite. ❋ Unknown (2009)

In 1986 the CPSC promulgated a labeling requirement for all products that contain asbestos: asbestos paper and millboard; asbestos cement sheet; dry-mix asbestos furnace or boiler cement; asbestos wood or coal stove-door gaskets; asbestos stove mats and iron rests; central hot-air furnace duct connectors. ❋ CHERYL MENDELSON (2005)

Cement sheet, millboard, and paper used as insulation around furnaces and wood-burning stoves. ❋ CHERYL MENDELSON (2005)

When I had succeeded to my satisfaction in making a correct pattern, I laid it on a sheet of thin millboard, traced the outline inside and outside the oval with a pencil, and cut it out. ❋ Various (N/A)

Then, putting the paper on a drawing-board or sheet of millboard, cock it up so that the shadow of the squeeze is seen, and draw over the lines ❋ Various (N/A)

We now take a piece of stout millboard (an old ledger book cover will do if large enough), or, if purchased with the frame, ask for a two pound board: this will cost about 4d., and be sufficient for several bags. ❋ Various (N/A)

This is most conveniently done by placing the cleaned and polished cover-plate upon a piece of asbestos millboard over a bunsen flame turned low. ❋ Unknown (N/A)

It is impossible in the space allowed for this paper to enumerate them, but I may add that their ingenious construction, their good wearing qualities, the clever mechanism of the tools by which the various discs of cloth, metal, millboard, etc., are cut out, and the methods of uniting them so as to form a complete button, are marvels of skill and industry. ❋ Various (N/A)

A covered button consists of two discs of metal and one of millboard, thicker or thinner, according to circumstances. ❋ Various (N/A)

The hollow between the neck and shell is filled with millboard. ❋ Various (N/A)

Hence, in viewing large collections of pictures, their colours will be more duly estimated by sometimes walking to the window, or by taking an occasional glance at a millboard, which may be carried in the hand, painted a cool gray. ❋ George Field (N/A)

Then pieces of millboard or heavy pasteboard are soaked in water and applied while wet in long strips about three inches wide over the wadding, and the whole is covered with bandage. ❋ Kenelm Winslow (N/A)

The good-natured Düsseldorfian willingly lent brushes and bits of millboard upon which John proceeded to make the most lurid confections. ❋ Frank Jewett Mather (N/A)

In the packet of cards was a solitary one, larger than the rest, an expensive affair on thick, highly glazed millboard, bearing in gothic characters the name: ❋ Valentine Williams (1914)