{"id":2190,"date":"2013-11-26T20:05:16","date_gmt":"2013-11-26T20:05:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/preservation\/?p=3726"},"modified":"2013-11-26T20:05:16","modified_gmt":"2013-11-26T20:05:16","slug":"fixing-a-detached-cover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/2013\/11\/26\/fixing-a-detached-cover\/","title":{"rendered":"Fixing a detached cover"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tuesday, November 26, 2013<\/p>\n<p>The National Czech &amp; Slovak Museum &amp; Library recently acquired this sweet chunky 19<sup>th<\/sup> century religious text and brought it into the lab.\u00a0 The binding had broken away from the text block after the first signature because it was so large. The cover was consolidated and the hinges were repaired with colored Japanese paper.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3727\" style=\"width: 280px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/preservation\/files\/2013\/11\/P9270167.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3727\" alt=\"The book had broken away from the cover.\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/preservation\/files\/2013\/11\/P9270167.jpg\" width=\"270\" height=\"203\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">The book had broken away from the cover.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_3729\" style=\"width: 280px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/preservation\/files\/2013\/11\/PA030171.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-3729 \" alt=\"The hinges were fixed with colored Japanese paper\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/preservation\/files\/2013\/11\/PA030171.jpg\" width=\"270\" height=\"203\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">The hinges were fixed with colored Japanese paper<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Hidden behind the binding and now revealed because of the failure was a nice piece of cotton cloth used as a spine liner. The spine was relined with gelatin sized Japanese paper for strength and the book was reassembled.\u00a0 Once assembled the paper hinges were tinted with paint to match the original leather.\u00a0 A four flap enclosure was made and the book was off to the NCSML to become part of their growing collection.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3728\" style=\"width: 280px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/preservation\/files\/2013\/11\/P9270169.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3728\" alt=\"A scrap of cotton was used as a spine lining\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/preservation\/files\/2013\/11\/P9270169.jpg\" width=\"270\" height=\"203\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">A scrap of cotton was used as a spine lining<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_3730\" style=\"width: 280px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/preservation\/files\/2013\/11\/PA150181.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3730\" alt=\"Tinted hinges to match the original leather\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/preservation\/files\/2013\/11\/PA150181.jpg\" width=\"270\" height=\"203\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tinted hinges to match the original leather<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tuesday, November 26, 2013 The National Czech &amp; Slovak Museum &amp; Library recently acquired this sweet chunky 19th century religious text and brought it into the lab.&nbsp; The binding had [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2190"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2190\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}