Reading by Touch: Scotland’s early tactile reading systems
What came before braille? Scotland played a key role in the early history of reading by touch, opening new possibilities for blind readers in the 19th century. Taylor Hare explores embossed pages, knotted strings & radical alphabets
https://www.nls.uk/collections/stories/printing-and-publishing/reading-by-touch/
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