Posted on February 12, 2019
Tools
A friend made me a custom leather skiving knife, and it’s incredible!
read more... Posted on January 9, 2019
1900 Family Bible
This is a client’s piece, only recently discovered after languishing decades in a trunk in the attic. Working with the client, we agreed on rebinding the book, limited conservation intervention, and as much repair as I could manage. The clasps were missing from the back, but they remained on front cover. The iron nails holding […]
read more...Posted on December 26, 2016
Rock Magazine Ads for… Crabs?
In our volunteer work at the Library of Congress (Packard Campus), there was apparently much to be gleaned about American culture from the 1970s rock magazines we inventoried. Initially, it seemed a bit absurd. Why would rock magazines be advertising a chemical solution for lice and other body parasites? Could this be related to […]
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