Miscellaneous Repairs

A new leather corner to match the spine.

Paring leather so it wraps neatly around board edges.

Sewing headbands

Cleaning the spine of a Confederate Soldier’s Manual.

New paper, aged and spotted to blend.

Sewing new tapes onto a fairly solid textblock.

Cooks Voyages rebound in sprinkled calf

3 types of tear repair. At left, filling in with new paper. Across center with tissue, at right with tissue fill.

3 stages of joint tacketing. Leather lifted at left, packeting cord worked in and leather replaced at center, and joint covered at right.

3 stages of joint tacketing inside. New inner joint at left, new packeting cord visible at center, and first step at right.

Ploughing the edge of a new book.

Sewing on Cords