This book has translucent plastic plates of medieval stained glass windows! What a cool feature…I’ve never seen anything like it! Many of the plates have come loose, however, so we’ll tip them back in before the book is returned to the library shelves.
Soap bubbles spotted in the stacks.
Awwwww, poor little book!
Libraries have little regard for illustrated endpapers. Poor Joe got a sticker to the face.
Paper curls from cleaning the spine of an old, big book in the conservation lab. I usually start out my spine cleaning by using a special dull knife to scrape away as much of the paper lining as I can, until I get down to the crash/mull/super fabric lining underneath. That’s when I switch to […]
Neon catfish art. Found in the art building on the campus where I work
Yup! Peter Verheyen and Donia Conn have written up some great instructions for how to make a German-style springback. Check them out on the Book Arts web! On that same site there’s also instructions for the English-style springback here. I’ve made both types of springbacks, but it’s been so long I don’t really remember which […]
Today I dis-bound this book with a metal cover, so that it can go to the commercial bindery and get a new cover (the cover has gotten rather sharp and has been referred to as a ‘shiv’ by our cataloging department). Don’t worry, we have another pristine copy in special collections! This copy was our […]
The Paper Project This project chronicles handmade and mould made paper images produced by a scanning-laser confocal microscope. This type of microscopy is unsurpassed for producing sharp three-dimensional images and allows us to see not just surface features, but often all the way through the sheet. The microscope scans successively deeper layers of a specimen […]
Well that sure is an awfully pretentious thing to call themselves.