The Vespiary Book Binding & Book Conservation

Just a quick update to let you know I’ll be presenting a workshop tomorrow in conjunction with the Montana Festival of the Book called, “TLC for Books.” It’ll be a crash course on tending to your personal collection, touching on books, paper documents and photos. I’ll be talking about storage techniques, a little DIY repair [...]

If you read this blog, my guess is that you are either a serious craftsperson, or an enthusiastic hobbyist. You probably frequent DIY craft sites like Etsy, Craftster, or Make.  Like me, you have probably found examples of ingenious projects as well as a fair share of handmade abominations (I’m backed up by Regretsy on [...]

I often curse when I have to reverse patch up jobs done on books with poor materials and inept hands, so it’s somewhat comforting to hear that this happens on a much larger scale as well.

The Ambrosiana Library of Milan has announced that they are going to dismantle the Codex Atlanticus, a huge collection of [...]

I saw this editorial cartoon and I had to shout, “DON”T USE TAPE!!!”

Still, some mending is in order…