Book Restoration & Repairhttp://www.otterbookbinding.com/book-restoration-repair/en-GB2010-02-09T08:36:03ZSquarespace Site Server v5.9.1 (http://www.squarespace.com/)Welsh Bible Repairhttp://www.otterbookbinding.com/book-restoration-repair/welsh-bible-repair.htmlMarysa2008-10-16T17:26:38ZThis Bible was printed in Welsh in the 1800's.  When it arrived in the Bindery, the original front and back boards were very degraded and the spine was unsalvageable.  Because the original covers were very plain, the decision was made to rebind it in a style fitting to it's age, with a calf spine and blind tooling on either side of raised bands.  The title was lettered using brass hand letters and gold leaf.

]]>Breeches Bible - 1610http://www.otterbookbinding.com/book-restoration-repair/breeches-bible-1610.htmlMarysa2008-08-12T22:12:19ZThis Bible circa 1600s came with numerous pages torn with missing parts

The Boards had come away and the spine was brittle and unsalvageable.


To repair this book, a facsimile frontispiece was printed onto some sympathetically dyed paper and joined onto the original.   A new spine was made up to match the original and blind lines were criss crossed on the leather and dye was used to make as sympathetic repair as possible

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The boards were cleaned using lighter fuel. In-situ repairs using heatset tissue were carried out throughout the book mainly to the top edges. The first two sections were flattened and repaired as they were the worst affected. Sewing repairs were carried out. New ‘made’ endpapers were made using some original Victorian bible paper. The board edges were repaired using fine Japanese tissue which was painted to match the original cloth and laid on using wheat flour paste.

   

A cloth similar in colour and texture as was used for the reback material. A hollow was made the spine was also lined with fraynot and rebacked and cased in.

  

The book was then lightly polished with Renaissance Wax and a simple protective slip case made to house it.

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New leather was prepared, dyed to match and placed into the gaps and a new leather spine was attached.

Finally, missing gold tooling was re-worked to give a sympathetic repair.

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