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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Tag: conservation
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More uses for the wood burning hot tool: removing really stubborn not-water-soluble spine linings.
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Proper tape removal etiquette requires the pinky finger to be extended.
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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 […]
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Sooooooomebody went a little crazy with the Demco hinge tape (link is definitely not an endorsement, but for educational reasons only)!! I counted SEVEN pages with the tape on it, not to mention the green tape on the cover. This book is now brittle and breaking at the edges of the tape. Sigh.
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My face when people on the internet use wildly wrong bookbinding terminology. Oh honey, no. Also my face when I get called a conservationist or a restorer. It’s hard being pedantic sometimes.
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Time wouldn’t be a very good conservator. Look how he’s poked his scythe right through the canvas! For shame.
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I’m currently working on repairing this Victorian book of floral symbolism, and realized that a couple of the plates were loose and not in the right place. Unfortunately there was no paginated “List of Illustrations”, and the titles on the plates didn’t match up with the flowers listed in the table of contents. So what […]
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Animated book boxes, aka four-flap wrappers aka tuxedo boxes aka preservation enclosures.
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From “Leather for Libraries”, 1905. Read it online!