Work
Books and bindings
Old books, family books, registers: the text block, the sewing and the binding.
- Old books and family books
- Bindings in leather, cloth or parchment
- Registers and notebooks
- Albums
The first cases in this category will be online soon. Do you have an object like this? Send photos: I will tell you what is possible.
A book is a complex object: leaves, sewing, boards, a covering. Each element can be damaged, and each affects the others.
What I see most often
- A binding coming apart, broken headcaps and joints.
- Loose sections, torn or detached pages.
- Crumbling leather, worn corners.
- Stains, damp, old repairs with adhesive tape.
My experience
At the Bibliothèque nationale de France I was a restorer-binder: maintenance, consolidation and restoration of paper and books, reconstruction of damaged or missing parts, making replacement bindings in parchment.
Depending on the book and its use, I consolidate what exists, repair the pages, or suggest a custom conservation box to protect it.