Proper tape removal etiquette requires the pinky finger to be extended.
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Tag: book conservation
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Monday morning blob of spine cleaning boogers.
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Cracked leather, worn joints.
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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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This is the first time I’ve seen a diazotype that wasn’t a single sheet or an architectural print. This one is a music score, with tape on it, natch. It stinks to high heaven.
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I feels ya, book.
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It’s very hard to work out your paste and video it at the same time!
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Whoa. What a difference! Same publisher/printer/year/everything. Same library binding. Same library building, even. Very, very different results. The copy on the bottom is very, very brittle and brown. The copy on the top has paper that is still nicely flexible and white. It’s possible the copy on the bottom was kept in a big city, […]
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All these leaves and flowers were found pressed between the pages of one of our herbals, from Special Collections.