Last week our conservation staff in the bindery had a creative day of making paste papers. It is hard to not be jealous of all the work they get to do on a daily basis, but sometimes we get a chance to participate. With this project we had that opportunity. Who can say finger painting isn’t allowed in the work place??
Before and after dyeing a Japanese paper spine repair. Very pleased with the results! - Bexx #bookrepair #bookconservation #msulibraries #specialcollections (at MSU Libraries)
Magnum Opus 🕯✨ Available at mccallcompany.etsy.com in 8 colors
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“And if we vow to only speak in echoes, our very language will reflect our lack. And if we vow to only speak in fire, our words will turn to stone in our mouths.”
— Jacqueline Winter Thomas, from “(Mytho)Poetics II,” Eratio
Tiger Eye marbled paper being pulled from the carrageen size. Soon to be added to the store.
This woodcut depicting a glass furnace is from Georg Agricola’s De re metallica, one of the first technological books that looked at industries like mining and glassmaking. Accounts like this form a large part of our understanding of glassmaking throughout history. Learn more about historical glassmaking in “Curious and Curiouser: Surprising Finds from the Rakow Library.”
Berckwerck Buch / De re metallica, Georg Agricola, 1580. CMGL 66820.
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detail from the cover of a 19th century book of witchcraft and the supernatural 1860’s
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Sometimes we just like to examine our beautiful bindings, like this grand corner plate and boss on an early 16th-century Flavius Josephus in our special collections…
Books & Details
Eyn new kunstlichboich, page 24v by Peter Quentel, Drawings and Prints
Medium: WoodcutRogers Fund, 1920 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
The Yellow Fairy Book
Edited by Andrew Lang
New Impression 1908 - First published 1894
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