Sew it, rather than paste it!
Channel: Rita Udina · Paper & Book Conservation
Date: 2020-11-22

Structural Value of Adhesion vs. Sewing in Book Conservation.
Lecture given in the Conference "Book Conservation: One Philosophy, Many Interpretations".
Organization: ERC (European Research Centre for Book and Paper Conservation-Restoration) and the University for Continuing Education, Krems (Austria). Donau-Universität Krems, Die Universität für Weiterbildung.

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👉 Abstract:
Bookbinding history gathers a wide variety of structures, most of them consisting in a sewing and some other attached (pasted) components.
Book conservation entails necessarily a deep knowledge of each structure, since most of the times we want to keep it unaltered, on one hand because of the inherent historical information but also because the original structure is supposed to be more efficient for the features of a particular binding.
The lecture focuses on the structural value of sewing versus adhesion, the main bonding elements on bookbinding, and yet with much different features.
Three general study cases are discussed:
 - Disproportioned bindings
 - Bindings without sewing (albums)
 - Providing structural value to adhesion
After seeing some examples, it's clear that it's better to sew it, rather than paste it!

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