So, I just learned about a Preservation ‘urban legend’ yesterday, while working a preservation “clinic” at a workshop hosted by my library. A man had brought a very brittle and fragile army base newspaper that belonged to his father. It was falling apart, and the paper was very pulpy and probably wouldn’t survive much more […]
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So you know how you can tape things to other things by making a little loop of Scotch tape? Turns out it’s not a very good way to repair books.
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Little Monday morning surprises found squashed in the margin of a book I’m resewing.
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More uses for the wood burning hot tool: removing really stubborn not-water-soluble spine linings.
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Some Neanderthal* glued the spine of this book’s textblock to its case, in an attempt to repair it. Now I have to poultice it back off before we send it to the bindery for commercial binding. *apologies to any other anthropology people out there for my stupid joke.
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Don’t read and drive, folks.
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Proper tape removal etiquette requires the pinky finger to be extended.
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This is how your phase box sausage gets made. We have our old guillotine fitted with a crimper blade (instead of the normal sharp blade) that we use to make the folded parts on phase boxes.
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Monday morning blob of spine cleaning boogers.
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Cracked leather, worn joints.