So I replaced the spine part of the cover and used book cloth to cover the spine. I used some Japanese repair paper on the inside of the hinge areas as you can see in this close up photo. Then I covered up that stuff with some new pasted endpapers.
I think I should have attempted to get the book cloth in between the paper and board...rather than pasting it on top of the cover paper. That would have solved the issue of covering up part of the title on the front cover. But when I tried to separate the paper and the board on the covers it was just tearing too easily. I think there were a couple issues: the paper on the covers of this book is brittle, likely low grade, maybe acidic... and I was probably using the wrong tools for the job since I haven't acquired tools for this kind of work, making me "all thumbs" while doing this.
2 comments:
this is a really cute book. i've been oogling your creations for a while, but this is the first time i've come across you blog!
as such, you're my "cool online thing of the week". yay you. (it's not that big of an honor, my blog dosen't have that many readers. but oh well)
Wow, it looks like someone dropped that book from a rooftop. :o)
Nice job on the repair.
Just a thought for the future, it may have been easier to make a whole new cover with the cover pictures glued ontop afterwards. They don't look like they would have been too hard to get off the boards.
Jackie
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