A Step-by-Step Guide to Book Repair for Beginners
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- Опубліковано 8 сер 2016
- *This is a narrated video from our previous "Full Reback" video: • "Full" Reback (Spine R...
This kind of repair is used when the spine if off/loose, and the hinges attaching the boards to the textblock are weakened or detached.
Not appropriate for special collections / rare items.
Not sure how I ended up here but this is incredibly soothing to watch.
my exact thought!
I started at Pawn Stars then Rebecca Romney then books then here!
I started on You & wanted to learn how he does it.
Unintentional ASMR
I’ve just found your channel and subscribed.. Bookbinding was my main job for 25 years until the company closed the factory in 2008.. I absolutely loved this work.. Hand sewing and machine sewing book spine with end papers.. I made book hard back cases individually to of the book sizes, and I also done the library book repair that you’re actually doing in this video.. Not only did the factory repair and refurbish library books we also made up 12 monthly volumes at customers request of Medical Journals and monthly magazines into one yearly volume..
Brilliant, calm and collected, no panic, no stupid music, I can now feel confident to re-do four very rare books that have been assigned to me, I am a leather worker and can now start to expand my skills, thanks to you both, good camera work.
Uh-oh -- the video description says this method is not appropriate for rare / special collections books. It's structurally okay, but it's really just a utilitarian repair for general circulation books. The raw muslin hinge cloth visible on the inside of the boards is just the most obvious characteristic.
Beginning with the teardown and removal of old materials from the spine, these steps can be improved and adapted to produce a less crude result -- even up to a conservation level rebind. One of the easiest modifications is to make or buy new folded endpapers (instead of tipping the old fly leaf back on). These will be of suitable weight and color (slightly inferior to the existing paper color) -- with vertical grain direction. Tipped to the block at the hinge and glued under the linen hinge cloth, they will hide the inner joint and cloth. (The block is attached to the cover by gluing the outside half of the new endpaper -- the "paste-down" -- and carefully closing the cover onto the book while holding the block down firmly with 2 or 3 fingers, which are quickly removed as the cover falls in place. The thumb and index or middle finger of the cover-side hand hold the block steady by finding the shoulder of the block through the hinge of the cover. Check inside very briefly if you must, then turn the book over and repeat. Press together firmly, including a suitable appliance in the joints if available, for at least 10 minutes.)
Hey! Can I get an update? Did you do that?
Thank you, Marianne, for a calm comprehensive and easy to follow guide. I now have confidence to repair some of my late grandmother's cook books, hoping that I can obtaine the materials in the UK.
I am very grateful for the series. I volunteer at my library, and these are the issues I find. Thank you!
Such a wonderful tutorial, so much attention to detail and patience. Thank you!
Very informative and I've repaired a couple of old books now. Thanks Marianne.
Thank you very much for this tutorial. My husband has an old bible he absolutely love, but the cover was completely ripped. With this video I was able to recover it!!
I have some older reference materials that need this work. Thank you for making this instructional video. I will be starting this work soon and needed a refresher on proper methods. Thank you.
Thank you for showing us how to repair an old books, your voice is so relaxing and makes me calm😊
One of the most inspiring and informative how-to videos on UA-cam. Thanks Marianne!
Wow, thank you so much for the video. I have to watch it again and again before I start, that for sure. My puppy destroyed lots of my favourite books, cook books, children books last year, so I have lots of work to do. Thanks again.
Wow! I really needed this after finding an 1858 edition of Shakespeare. Helped me greatly in the processes of repair. Thank you!
Thank-you for patiently showing us each step of the process. Greetings from another left-handler!
Great tutorial - thank you very much! Concise, simple to understands, priceless knowledge!!
Thanks for this! I've been trying to find out how to repair a book I have that only one cover came off but all I had found were ones where it had come off the text block but not from the spine. This is so helpful!
Excellent educational video where each step is explained fully so even I understood how to correctly repair my old books. Thanks a million.
Bangkhen Thai Where did you buy all of the needed materials?
This is fascinating. I don’t need this, but thoroughly enjoyed it. It was quite well made, excellent narration and photography.
Your instructions were well explained and very helpful. I need to repair 2 substantial hard cover books, 1 being a Dictionary, the other a very old Recipe Book. Thank you!
Hi!! It's March 2021 and I just watched this. Excellently done. Now I can repair my old friends.
Thank you so much for this video. It allowed me to repair a book my grandmother gave me, that was completely falling apart.
Wow, thank you! Very well done. Clear & concise.
thank you so much I have a few books from grandfather and they really deserve to repair , that was so informing
What a delightful tutorial! Many thanks!
Great Job. Now I am going to try to fix a book, A great tutorial. so glad I selected your tutorial.
that's fantastic i cant wait to practice this to my library
Thanks so much for this tutorial, it is very easy to understand and so concise as well!
Fascinating. Taken in by the detailed but simple instructions. Wish I could access this service to fix my Bible and Missal.
Quite a lot of work but so worth it.
I can't love this video enough. Well done!
Very informative. Excellent work.
Excellent work.
Excellent tutorial. I have an old bible to repair for a friend and this will be a great help. Many thanks
Winksartist T How did it work out for you? Is that Bible still in use?
Beginners??!!!!
I enjoyed your video. Thank you.
I think I need to try something simpler first. Beginner level can be my aspiration.
A real master!
Very helpful!!
Would be a fantastic job restoring books so cool
Thank you! Go Orange!
Thanks for repairing our old books. How did you learn to do this and are they still teaching others to do this?
Love this 😊
Great video thanks so much
Thank you very much 👍
This is helpful. But it would be even better with a list of supplies.
The book looks great. Hope i can do as well.
Excellent presentation, thank you :-)
Excellent!
Hi thank you for the video! how do you know what color book cloth you need? Ive got a could of hundred to 200 year old books and idk what to do..
Thank you so much ! 👍🇨🇦
5 stars ! Thank you...
خیلی خیلی عالی دست تان درد نکند very good thanks 🙏🙏
Good.thank you.
Awesome thanks. At 20:30 it hops away before gluing both sides of the book... I'm assuming I hold it fast, flip it and repeat.
My bible has fallen apart and I don't want to buy a new one. I will try to use the techniques to save it. I had no idea it would be such a project. Hope I'm up for all this work. Great video. Tfs
Thank you. Great video. But I want to do a book that is not a cloth cover. Can I still use the same materials?
More: to what antiquity is this repair method suitable? It seems most applicable to modern books.
Hello. Can you please tell where I can buy the tools and materials you have used in your video. I live in the UK. Thank you in anticipation. Your video is very clear and easy to understand, thanks.
Thank you for the Video with detailed steps. Where to buy the book cover cloth and end cover paper, spine paper?
This rocks! I just rebuilt an old martial arts book from the 70's. It's quite a valuable atifact, it's a first edition.
book binding
That's what she said!
Wow what an excellent video Thank you! One question: do you have another video on repairing pages that have dog-ears?
Very interesting video
You have very nice hands
Where could I get a book press such as the one used in this video?
nice work.🌹👍
I love the video! Thank you so much, it was very helpful. One question, where did you get the hand press? Was it purchased or hand made? I've tried to locate one and have failed. Thank you!
Help!!! I have an old beatrix potter complete collection hardback story book in need on some tlc.
Its spineless!! But otherwise in mint condition. I would really love to refurbish it, however i have no idea were to start. Please help me, it would be greatly appreciated.
Where can I find the wood clamp that is holding the book together while it's being repaired?
This is a wonderfully presented and explained process. Every step is magnificent. I want to know what to do when a book has been loved so much that the (I have lost the nomenclature already) spine title has been torn off.
Oh, and is this process applicable to books of any age without harming their value?
What type of cloth is used
Excelente video, y Lástima que encuentre poco material en español
Anyone know where you can find that ungummed cotton cambric cloth for hinging? We used to get rolls of 3" and 4" widths from Gaylord, but it looks like they only have 2" widths and less now.
She is good!
I want this job so bad.
Do i need to use a spine cloth
I have a library bound ISBN 0-345-45339-5 that I'm terrified to try this on. The first four sheets are completely detached. The library glued their clear plastic cover directly to the dust jacket, and I'd love to be rid of it. I'd like to fix it as much as I can. A new one is $50. I'm not sure I trust myself, though.
Ok, so I just received a brand new deluxe edition hardback of J.R.R. Tolkien's "The Nature of Middle-earth" and it's beautiful. I laid it on its spine and gently opened the pages starting from the outside and working inward. I did not think I was being harsh at all, but when I closed the book, getting ready to do it again, the entire cover of the book had popped off. I don't know what to do. I don't think it should have done that the first time I opened the book... I swear I was not harsh. And this process looks so difficult...
It’s a PRECIOUS process.😂
What type of cloth are you using as the "hinge cloth"? I've purchased some super or mull cloth for the spine but have been unable to find a hinge cloth as dense as the one you have here.
I think she referred to it as buckram cloth. I found a company through Google called talasonline that sells it.
We bought this hinge cloth from Gaylord in the past. It's called Cotton Ungummed Cambric Tape. We just bought some 3" wide rolls recently, but now I'm only seeing 2" and less which is not going to work for hinging. I really hope someone can find another source.
(The buckram is for the spine, not the hinge)
Paper attached cover board - ? Any strength to it - wear & tear it may come out - cloth attachment or fabric will do - I hope so - I need answer from the master
i wonder what glue your using?
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How long do you have to let the glue dry?
The book actually looks better with the two-tone cover and spine.
good
I am curious also how to repair wear on the board corners and edges. Thank you for demonstrating at beginner speed. The worst damage that I have observed is done by pulling books off shelves using the spine stiffener at the top (evident also on the repaired book). Why isn’t this area given more reinforcement? What ia done about the cord at the top of the block spine?
I have a KJV bible which is using paste down liner being glued to its French Morocco leather cover. Recently, I found the paste down liner is starting to go off. What is the best way to repair it?
I noticed your book was from Syracuse University. Are you in the Syracuse area? If so would you be able to rebind a book for me and what is the cost?
What's more important me, or gluing hynm books back together with Edgar Coleman?
Is there any way to cut the pages completely out of a book to scan them, and reattach them to the book?
Cut them out? Not if you want it completely rebound, most likely professionally. However, if the item has sewn signatures, you could in theory resew it.
You might know this already given this thread is a year old but there are scanners now which will flatten the pages digitally so no need to extract any manually.
@@constantlyevolving6967 Yes, and the flattening software has not been perfected yet. I know, because I've tried.
@@squatch545 This 2nd gen laser curve is the one I'm after, maybe it's for you but it's the best I've seen and read about for me as I need one for large style manuscripts and antique books which are very fragile. amzn.to/3cmELlq
You know it's an old video if it has dot matrix printer paper in it, even if the techniques are ageless.
hiker64 I still have loads of the same!
I wish I could find a place near me where they can fix our book from childhood and I’m afraid of damaging it more.
What do you call the 4" piece of white something that is placed on the spine after the glue has been laid on it? Is that tape? On top of glue? Or some kind of fabric?
Cotton Ungummed Cambric Tape
Cool
would cheesecloth work for the hinges? i basically need to reattach the text block to the boards? (the boards are completely attached and the spine is fine.)
I know this is an old video. I am hoping to get suggestions for tools to get for repairing books...how to begin. Thanks 👍
Can I just pay you to do mine?
Do I observe correctly that the book being repaired in this video is of a modern manufacture?
sulpreservation - Is there any way I can speak with the lady in video? Send some pics of my project/question? There's a couple things i'm not clear on from your video & I am in the middle of repairing an important book. thanks
A little more involved than my current need, but fascinating nonetheless.
Thank you for watching! SUL Preservation.
The board cutter looks positively medieval.
I didn't know that how to attach the cover to the book.
Did you skip some steps?
Is that Elmer's glue?
Have a rare Dante’s Inferno that needs this done but do not want to destroy it.