Cloth repairs

This article is about a pictorial endpaper repair and binding restoration of a Winnie the Pooh story book. This well-worn copy of ‘The World of Pooh’ had been in the owner’s possession since childhood. It had quite obviously seen a lot of service over the ensuing years. The hinges of the cloth binding were torn […]

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This article is about a cloth book repair and resewing a disbound text block. Many of the examples of repairs that I’ve featured in older posts here, are on books bound in leather. Cloth-bound books come in just as often for repair. Many exhibit the same problems as their leather counterparts. The covering material on […]

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