This book just finished getting repaired in our lab, and it featured an entire section on book-making, separate from printmaking! And because it’s old, you can read it online for free at the Internet Archive! Yay!
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Leather coloring that reminds me of autumn leaves. The inside is just as brittle as crisp autumn leaves, too, which is a shame.
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This book had an ombré spine lining! The red is probably the result of over spraying when they colored the head edge of the textblock. Also I dig the yellow and purple color scheme.
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Someone “fixed” this with some poorly placed pieces of double-sided tape. Sigh.
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More uses for the wood burning hot tool: removing really stubborn not-water-soluble spine linings.
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Cracked leather, worn joints.
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Gold-stamped image of a pitcher plant on the insect-damaged cover of “Recollections of a Happy Life” by Marianne North.
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Orientation marks on the spine of a book, post-cleaning/removal of the spine lining. These marks were to help the binder make sure all the signatures were in the right orientation before binding.
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Book sewing supplies: thread, needles, beeswax. Kept in a library card catalog drawer.
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“On the evils of oversewing” Oversewing is a “repair” technique used by commercial binderies (and now fortunately out of fashion), but it also was used a primary sewing structure back in the day as well. What you’re looking at is an example of the former, where a modern book has its spine chopped off, and […]