The Vespiary Book Binding & Book Conservation

All eyes have been pointed towards China in the recent weeks because of the Olympics; mine are no exception. A recent article in the China Daily caught my eye, and it’s worth passing your way. A devoted group of conservation professionals have dedicated themselves over the last 18 years to restoring numerous ancient […]

A website that I spend WAY too much time on is the social blog, Metafilter. There are about 65,000 users who trawl the internet in search of (theoretically) the best of the web. What the best consists of is frequently a topic of dispute, but just yesterday someone posted a collection of Book […]

Recently I repaired a whole number of Baedeker’s travel guides. This publishing house was yesterday’s equivalent of Lonely Planet, or perhaps Fodor’s. It was mildly titillating (can I say that anymore?) for me because I had never come across one in real life before; I had only heard about them in the movie […]

Recently I had the most perfect work day - the morning skies were ringing as only they can up here in the Rockies. I drove north past the Mission Mountains to Pablo and the Salish-Kootenai College to give a workshop about basic preservation techniques at the library there. I have my time teaching […]