![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
fuzzybluemonkeys
It's my first private conservation job!
So, back in the fall, I was asked to take a look at the UUCWC membership book (from 1916), and see if it was fixable. It was, and I fixed it. In the meantime, I learned these bits of conservation geekery:
-The current binding is cloth, but the original binding was leather as evidenced by the bits of leather I found hidden on the joints (and maybe that explains why it has such gorram huge joints... hmmm.)
-In addition to being rebound at some point, it was previously repaired by someone. They used heat-set tissue (perfectly okay to use, I used some too), did some resewing, and applied PVA directly to the spine (NOT OKAY. And more relevant to me, not reversible, so I just left it as is-- the textblock is actually pretty solid)
And now [drumroll, please], the picspam.
Unfortunately, the "before" pictures are sorta crappy, but too late now.
The basic gist is that the cloth is fraying/worn off the edges of the covers,
the front cover is completely detached,
and the flyleaf with the original binder's inscription is wasting away into brittle oblivion.
A reback, paper repairs, and a whole lot of brown tissue on those damn covers later:
So, back in the fall, I was asked to take a look at the UUCWC membership book (from 1916), and see if it was fixable. It was, and I fixed it. In the meantime, I learned these bits of conservation geekery:
-The current binding is cloth, but the original binding was leather as evidenced by the bits of leather I found hidden on the joints (and maybe that explains why it has such gorram huge joints... hmmm.)
-In addition to being rebound at some point, it was previously repaired by someone. They used heat-set tissue (perfectly okay to use, I used some too), did some resewing, and applied PVA directly to the spine (NOT OKAY. And more relevant to me, not reversible, so I just left it as is-- the textblock is actually pretty solid)
And now [drumroll, please], the picspam.
Unfortunately, the "before" pictures are sorta crappy, but too late now.
The basic gist is that the cloth is fraying/worn off the edges of the covers,
the front cover is completely detached,
and the flyleaf with the original binder's inscription is wasting away into brittle oblivion.
A reback, paper repairs, and a whole lot of brown tissue on those damn covers later:
no subject
Date: 2010-03-25 11:25 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-03-26 02:07 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-03-26 12:10 am (UTC)((I do preservation at a University library.))
no subject
Date: 2010-03-26 12:25 am (UTC)I also do preservation work at a University library. I'm just a technician, but it was cool to do something outside of work.
no subject
Date: 2010-03-26 12:28 am (UTC)Heh. Another 'just a tech' here. And yeah, I hear you, I'd love to be able to do more work on my own.