One scrap down, only a zillion to go!
Thank you to everyone who answered my question about what to do with our growing pile of e-flute scraps!
Below are the the replies that I have gotten so far. These are all great ideas! Keep ‘em coming!
Good question! We use scraps to make spacers and dividers for archival boxes (both flat and upright), but we’re still up to our ears in scrap as well. What do you think, conservators and tumblarians???
1) Give them to your local artist, or art students. 2) Make a series of smaller and smaller boxes, and align them on your desk in descending order by size to impress your coworkers and friends.3) Teach a box making workshop with them, but have participants make pint-sized boxes.4) Locate a group of miniature books in your collection that could benefit from some housing.5) Make book cradles, wedges, or other mounts for an exhibit or your reading room.6) Use the skinny pieces to make dividers in boxes for groups of small objects, housed together. 7) Make a crown out of the scraps and declare that the conservation lab is now a sovereign territory, and you are its divine ruler and benevolent monarch.
Where I work, they use them as giant sandwiches to house loooong panorama pictures and odd-size photos/small posters that don’t go in the flat file drawers for whatever reason. Punch holes in the ends of the sides and then tie them shut with cotton tape. :DAlso good for transporting weirdly sized flat items when you don’t have the right boxes, or when you want to save space. Maybe your scraps are too small for that. idk.