Not too convinced yet…
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Author: digitalcellulose
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TGIF!
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Animated book boxes, aka four-flap wrappers aka tuxedo boxes aka preservation enclosures.
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Useful books, for weakly puppies and dainty feeders. (Ads in the back of a 19th century book.)
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The scars of oversewing and a Demco hinge repair. I seem to rescue one of these previously-repaired books about once a month. Sometimes the original sewing is completely gone, hence the stab-sewing, but in many cases it was completely fine. This kind of side-sewing is particularly bad for books with brittle paper, as the paper’s […]
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Cover of an Arabic (?) language book. If you can translate the title, let me know! I foolishly forgot to write down the call number when I took the photo.
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Definitely not a binding I’m familiar with!
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Earrings made from parchment. Yeah, real parchment, like the stuff medieval books were written on!
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From “Leather for Libraries”, 1905. Read it online!
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Original collage by me. This was a page that was cut out of a library book by a patron, which was replaced by us.