(via Memorials of Edward Burne-Jones, by G. B.-J. ) I was reading Victoria Finlay’s wonderful “The Brilliant History of Color in Art”, and came across this interesting story in the chapter about mummy brown. In it, the Pre-Raphaelite painter Edward Burne-Jones performed a burial ceremony for a tube of mummy-brown paint, when he learned that […]
The Fragility of Headcaps and the Safe Handling of Books suspeccoll: conservethis: Pull it from the head, and the conservator will wish you were dead. Pull it from the spine, and everything will be fine. Love that rhyme – easy to remember, and important information about using books, especially ones in Special Collections. This conservator […]
There was a catalog advertisement for Nimmo’s books in the back of this Scottish book called “Books and Authors”.
The Journal of the Guild of Book Workers is now available online, for FREE! The Guild of Book Worker’s Journal is an annual publication containing in-depth articles, technical how-to’s, essays, profiles, illustrated exhibit reviews. The subjects cover general matters relating to the hand book crafts. Included are contemporary creative book arts as well as traditional […]
Somebody stapled some weird stuff to the half-title page of this book.
Ah yes, scraping tape residue off marble paper, so glamorous!
“How I Spent My Summer Vacation” or A Conservator Makes A Really Cool Book I just got back from a week of bookbinding summer camp, where I learned how to make a medieval style of book called a girdle book! It has laced-on wooden boards that are beveled to fit into the shoulders of the […]
At a book arts conference this week, making a medieval girdle book with Karen Hanmer! 😀 We’re sewing the textblock on double cords, using a packed sewing method that’s basically like a figure eight around both cords.
We made pastepaper in the conservation lab today! Pastepaper is an economical (and fun!) way to make decorated paper for use as book covering material or endsheets. You can also use pastepaper to make your own stuck-on endbands! It is a technique that has been around for quite a long while. Our library has examples […]
The edges of this book make a rainbow!