Our Conservation team enjoyed hosting a visit from Moriki Papers last week! We shared how we use Japanese paper in our studio and learned about the art of Japanese papermaking.
#CULConservation #BookConservation #PaperConservation #JapanesePaper #PaperRepair #Papermaking
Come and work with us! @theul.bsky.social 📚
#CULconservation #BookConservation @conservators.bsky.social
Two labels adhered in the lower right corner of a scrapbook cover. The yellow label on top is the manufacturer. The cream label on the bottom is directions for gluing items into the scrapbook
How to operate a Scrap Book. #scrapbooking #bookconservation #conservationispy
⚠️ Job Alert ⚠️
Closes on Monday, so don't delay!
❓ Assistant Conservator
📍 National Library of Scotland
🗓️ Closes 21 July
🔗 nls.current-vacancies.com/Jobs/Advert/...
#conservation #culturalheritage #heritage #conservationjobs #heritagejobs #libraryjobs #library #bookconservation #paperconservation
The front cover of a 19th century ledger. The leather is suede with blind tooled lines. Two repairs to the cover are visible.
My toned tissue & paste mend on the corner and an original mend top center. I can tell the original mend is contemporary with the binding because the tooling lines go across the break in the leather. #conservationispy #bookconservation #bookbinding #blindtooling
I’m not entirely satisfied with how my latest book treatment turned out. But I just looked at the before treatment photos and damn it was a mess. #bookconservationfeels #bookconservation #bookbinding #hoorayforprogress #halfleatherbinding
A handwritten recipe for iron gall ink written inside the back cover of a vellum bound book.
A recipe for iron gall ink. Written in the back of a commonplace book sometime between 1695-1720. #bookconservation #limpvellumbinding #conservationispy #irongallink
Paper conservation is featured on BBC Unexpected Elements episode 'Story Time'!
Hear Kathryn Kenney (from 14:25), Book + Paper Conservator at the @folger.edu talk about writing substrates, conservators & strategies to protect books from pests (including bats)! #PaperConservation #BookConservation
Join us for our May Brown Bag Lunch Series with Lyudmyla Babadzhanova of Bua Conservation for her talk on What Not to Do in Book and Paper Conservation on Tuesday, May 27, at 2 pm ET. (Registration req.)
Learn more: www.abaa.org/blog/post/ma...
#RareBooks #BookCollecting #BookConservation
A woman’s head sitting at the edge of a table with a towel around the neck. Arranged to look like a detached head. The woman is making a silly face.
So many days of tape removal! #bookconservation #tapeisevil #conservationispy
This book had broken threads, so needs to be completely disbound for repairs and resewing. #bookconservation #bookrepair #bookbinding #bookarts
Brass tools for hand lettering and gold tooling. They are on a bench next to practice leather with blind tooled title panels
Practice, practice, practice! #bookbinding #bookconservation #goldtooling #titlelabel
I’m putting together a tray for a new clamshell box. The interior is made of solid binders board, but will be covered in cloth and paper when done. A good clamshell box protects rare and fragile books. #bookconservation #bookbinding #clamshellbox #bookarts
Manuscripts and books being carefully placed on their cradles for the Curious Cures exhibition.
It’s all hands on deck in #CULconservation as our Conservation team prepares objects for the next exhibition, Curious Cures: medicine in the medieval world.
#CambridgeUniversityLibraries #BookConservation #CuriousCures
Who else has a collection of different weights for bookbinding? Soft, hard, heavy, and light, they all come in handy in the shop. #bookbinding #weights #bookarts #bookconservation #bookrepair
For #InternationalWomensDay a few of the brilliant colleagues in #CULconservation and some #BookConservation friends 📚
@theul.bsky.social #IWD @newnhamcollege.bsky.social
Quite looking forward to getting to work on this wee wonder.
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#bookbinder #islandofiona #isleofiona #bookconservation #bookrepair #bookrestoration #oldbooks #antiquarianbooks
A bound volume in the process of getting a new leather spine
Wish me luck. #conservationbinding #bookconservation #halfleather
I had to cut strips of 10 point board for a preservation enclosure workshop. Thank god my board shear is just big enough for the roll. #bookbinding #bookconservation #cuttingmaterial
⚠️ JOB ALERT ⚠️
Conservation Internship (books and paper) with
Oxford Conservation Consortium.
🔗 www.magd.ox.ac.uk/job-vacancies/
🗓️ Closes 10 Feb
#conservation #culturalheritage #heritage #conservationjobs #heritagejobs #museumjobs #paperconservation #bookconservation #bookandpaperconservation
A t-square aligned on a piece of binders board next to the tail of an unbound book.
When your book isn’t square. #conservationISpy #bookbinding #bookconservation #bigsigh
Two skeins of embroidery floss. Two scraps of hemp twine. A piece of linen with a two-color, sewn-on endband. Two threaded needles
Usually #endbands are sewn directly onto a book at the head and tail. The book on my bench is mostly single plates- there’s no fold to sew through and anchor the thread. I’m sewing a “dummy” band on linen around a hemp core. I’ll glue the linen to the spine #bookconservation #conservationispy
Last few books that have been on the bench.
#brownbindery #brownbinderyconservation #bookconservation #bookandpaperconservation #leatherconservation #woodconservation #furnitureconservation #guildofbookworkers #guildofbookworkers2025 #sapfm
The Cambridge University Library Conservation Department receives a visit from colleagues at the Oxford Conservation Consortium (OCC). We see a group of conservation colleagues looking at an old book in the studio.
The visit focused on the exchange of experiences around the consolidation of pigments, looking at case studies from the UL’s amazing special collections.
#CambridgeUniversityLibraries #CULconservation #ConservationCommunity #BookConservation #PigmentConsolidation
The Cambridge University Library Conservation Department receives a visit from colleagues at the Oxford Conservation Consortium (OCC). We see a group of conservation colleagues chatting in the studio.
Last year the Cambridge University Library Conservation Department received a visit from colleagues at the Oxford Conservation Consortium (OCC).
#CambridgeUniversityLibraries #CULconservation #ConservationCommunity #BookConservation #PigmentConsolidation #KnowledgeSharing
A map of the Orkney Islands coloured in delicate pinks, greens and yellows
It quickly became the standard reference gazetteer for Scotland.
The final volume features entries from MAA to ZET, including Perth, Mauchline and Stornoway Castle. It is beautifully illustrated with plates and maps.
#antiquebook
#rarebook
#bookcare
#bookconservation
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A later page in The Shield of Dissent showing black ink text and William Gladstone's pencil handwriting
You can find the books still waiting to be Befriended when you click here https://www.gladstoneslibrary.org/befriend-a-book
#Book
#antiquebooks
#rarebooks
#bookcare
#bookconservation
🛡️ 4/4
You can find the books still waiting to be Befriended when you click here www.gladstoneslibrary.org/befriend-a-b... (scroll down for Befriend a Book)
#Book
#antiquebooks
#rarebooks
#bookcare
#bookconservation
#befriendabook
#sponsorabook
📚 4/4
You can find the books still waiting to be Befriended when you click here www.gladstoneslibrary.org/befriend-a-b... (scroll down for Befriend a Book)
#Book
#antiquebooks
#rarebooks
#bookcare
#bookconservation
#befriendabook
#sponsorabook
📜 4/4
