#bookrepair

[thebookroadie]

Good morning, all! I will be doing my usual bookbinding livestream on YouTube this morning, 10am-11am Pacific! Here's my channel: https://www.youtube.com/@TheBookRoadie Come see what I'm working on and say hi!

[grannypanda]

I FIX BOOKS. Here are two recent jobs. Both came to me as loose sheets. The owners wanted them bound as hardcovers. I sewed the pages of each book together into textblocks. I then made hardcovers for each book, and bound in the respective textblocks into their respective covers.

Results...two nice new hardcovers, and two happy customers.

[bigriverbindery]

A great weekend teaching a Book Conservation and Repair workshop in Scarborough. The students broke then fixed a stack of books each.

[msulconservationlab]

I’m taking full advantage of the humidity today to flatten some vellum books. That’s one upside of the gloomy weather outside. #specialcollections #conservation #bookconservation #bookrepair https://www.instagram.com/p/B2UlSJpHaZa/?igshid=fb6cmhokgl6y

[librarycompany]

We shared this sweet scaleboard binding a few weeks ago and our conservation staff were horrified by the 1960s-era repair that was visible on the front cover. So here it is again, fresh from the lab, looking so much better! #FlashbackFriday

Here’s the text from the original post:

We love the decorated paper and scaleboard binding on our copy of John Witherspoon’s A Series of Letters on Education (New York, 1797).

Witherspoon, who was the president of Princeton College in 1797, was an avowed and determined disciplinarian. In a Series of Letters, he recommends parents “begin the establishment of authority” at the age of eight or nine months, and goes on to say “Do not imagine I mean to bid you use the rod at that age; on the contrary, I mean to prevent the use of it in a great measure, and to point out a way by which children of sweet and easy tempers may be brought to such a habit of compliance, as never to need correction at all.”

We find it interesting that the work was issued in such a tiny format, as though it were meant for the children themselves and not their parents. #MiniatureMonday

Witherspoon, John. A series of letters on education. New-York : printed by J. Buel, for C. Davis. 1797. 108 p. ; 10 cm.

[eidolonhouse]

A look into the bindery on stories today.📚 #myhappyplace #bindery #mystudio #bookbinder #bookbinding #rarebooks #bookrepair #toolsofthetrade #antiques #homebusiness #smallbusiness #entrepreneur #creativepreneur #booklife #bookshelf #shelfie #eidolonhouse

[thebookroadie]

Good morning, all! I will be doing my usual bookbinding livestream on YouTube this afternoon, 1pm-2pm Pacific! Here's my channel: https://www.youtube.com/@TheBookRoadie Come see what I'm working on and say hi!

[thebookroadie]

Good morning, all! I will be doing my usual bookbinding livestream on YouTube this morning, 10am-11am Pacific! Here's my channel: https://www.youtube.com/@TheBookRoadie Come see what I'm working on and say hi!