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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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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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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Just a silly little bookplate I whipped up the other day.
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Welcome to the 18th century, where the ex libris are made up and the straightness of your tooling doesn’t matter.
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Pressed saguaro flower, photographed on the light-table. conservethis: Still life with saguaro flower and paste.
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I feels ya, book.
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Still life with saguaro flower and paste.
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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, […]