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Our Conservation team enjoyed hosting a visit from Moriki Papers last week! We shared how we use Japanese paper in our studio and learned about the art of Japanese papermaking.

#CULConservation #BookConservation #PaperConservation #JapanesePaper #PaperRepair #Papermaking
October 3, 2025 at 8:04 AM
iamkristine.bsky.social
Come and work with us! @theul.bsky.social 📚

#CULconservation #BookConservation @conservators.bsky.social
theul.bsky.social Cambridge University Library @theul.bsky.social · Aug 28
Applications are open for the post of Conservator (Book and Paper) at Cambridge University Library!

For full details and to apply, click here: https://loom.ly/VUgy3Uo

The closing date for applications is Sunday 7 September 2025.
August 28, 2025 at 12:39 PM
gilliganem.bsky.social
How to operate a Scrap Book. #scrapbooking #bookconservation #conservationispy
Two labels adhered in the lower right corner of a scrapbook cover. The yellow label on top is the manufacturer. The cream label on the bottom is directions for gluing items into the scrapbook
August 19, 2025 at 7:48 PM
uolconservation.bsky.social
⚠️ Job Alert ⚠️

Closes on Monday, so don't delay!

❓ Assistant Conservator
📍 National Library of Scotland
🗓️ Closes 21 July
🔗 nls.current-vacancies.com/Jobs/Advert/...

#conservation #culturalheritage #heritage #conservationjobs #heritagejobs #libraryjobs #library #bookconservation #paperconservation
July 19, 2025 at 7:41 AM
gilliganem.bsky.social
My toned tissue & paste mend on the corner and an original mend top center. I can tell the original mend is contemporary with the binding because the tooling lines go across the break in the leather. #conservationispy #bookconservation #bookbinding #blindtooling
The front cover of a 19th century ledger. The leather is suede with blind tooled lines. Two repairs to the cover are visible.
June 30, 2025 at 6:46 PM
gilliganem.bsky.social
I’m not entirely satisfied with how my latest book treatment turned out. But I just looked at the before treatment photos and damn it was a mess. #bookconservationfeels #bookconservation #bookbinding #hoorayforprogress #halfleatherbinding
June 19, 2025 at 3:05 PM
gilliganem.bsky.social
A recipe for iron gall ink. Written in the back of a commonplace book sometime between 1695-1720. #bookconservation #limpvellumbinding #conservationispy #irongallink
A handwritten recipe for iron gall ink written inside the back cover of a vellum bound book.
May 29, 2025 at 8:43 PM
lucillaronai.bsky.social
Paper conservation is featured on BBC Unexpected Elements episode 'Story Time'!
Hear Kathryn Kenney (from 14:25), Book + Paper Conservator at the @folger.edu talk about writing substrates, conservators & strategies to protect books from pests (including bats)! #PaperConservation #BookConservation
BBC World Service - Unexpected Elements, Story time
The news you know, the science you don't
www.bbc.co.uk
May 27, 2025 at 11:37 PM
abaararebooks.bsky.social
Join us for our May Brown Bag Lunch Series with Lyudmyla Babadzhanova of Bua Conservation for her talk on What Not to Do in Book and Paper Conservation on Tuesday, May 27, at 2 pm ET. (Registration req.)

Learn more: www.abaa.org/blog/post/ma...

#RareBooks #BookCollecting #BookConservation
May 21, 2025 at 4:00 PM
gilliganem.bsky.social
So many days of tape removal! #bookconservation #tapeisevil #conservationispy
A woman’s head sitting at the edge of a table with a towel around the neck. Arranged to look like a detached head. The woman is making a silly face.
May 13, 2025 at 1:20 PM
bigriverbindery.bsky.social
This book had broken threads, so needs to be completely disbound for repairs and resewing. #bookconservation #bookrepair #bookbinding #bookarts
April 5, 2025 at 12:54 AM
gilliganem.bsky.social
Practice, practice, practice! #bookbinding #bookconservation #goldtooling #titlelabel
Brass tools for hand lettering and gold tooling. They are on a bench next to practice leather with blind tooled title panels
April 2, 2025 at 1:02 PM
bigriverbindery.bsky.social
I’m putting together a tray for a new clamshell box. The interior is made of solid binders board, but will be covered in cloth and paper when done. A good clamshell box protects rare and fragile books. #bookconservation #bookbinding #clamshellbox #bookarts
March 29, 2025 at 1:46 AM
gilliganem.bsky.social
Work cocktail #glaire #goldtooling #bookbinding #bookconservation
March 27, 2025 at 6:22 PM
theul.bsky.social
It’s all hands on deck in #CULconservation as our Conservation team prepares objects for the next exhibition, Curious Cures: medicine in the medieval world.

#CambridgeUniversityLibraries #BookConservation #CuriousCures
Manuscripts and books being carefully placed on their cradles for the Curious Cures exhibition.
March 26, 2025 at 4:54 PM
bigriverbindery.bsky.social
Who else has a collection of different weights for bookbinding? Soft, hard, heavy, and light, they all come in handy in the shop. #bookbinding #weights #bookarts #bookconservation #bookrepair
March 19, 2025 at 9:23 PM
iamkristine.bsky.social
For #InternationalWomensDay a few of the brilliant colleagues in #CULconservation and some #BookConservation friends 📚
@theul.bsky.social #IWD @newnhamcollege.bsky.social
March 8, 2025 at 11:33 AM
bailemorbooks.bsky.social
Quite looking forward to getting to work on this wee wonder.
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#bookbinder #islandofiona #isleofiona #bookconservation #bookrepair #bookrestoration #oldbooks #antiquarianbooks
February 26, 2025 at 6:15 PM
gilliganem.bsky.social
Wish me luck. #conservationbinding #bookconservation #halfleather
A bound volume in the process of getting a new leather spine
February 20, 2025 at 7:28 PM
bigriverbindery.bsky.social
I had to cut strips of 10 point board for a preservation enclosure workshop. Thank god my board shear is just big enough for the roll. #bookbinding #bookconservation #cuttingmaterial
February 17, 2025 at 12:47 AM
uolconservation.bsky.social
⚠️ JOB ALERT ⚠️

Conservation Internship (books and paper) with
Oxford Conservation Consortium.

🔗 www.magd.ox.ac.uk/job-vacancies/
🗓️ Closes 10 Feb

#conservation #culturalheritage #heritage #conservationjobs #heritagejobs #museumjobs #paperconservation #bookconservation #bookandpaperconservation
January 31, 2025 at 8:51 AM
gilliganem.bsky.social
When your book isn’t square. #conservationISpy #bookbinding #bookconservation #bigsigh
A t-square aligned on a piece of binders board next to the tail of an unbound book.
January 30, 2025 at 9:58 PM
gilliganem.bsky.social
Usually #endbands are sewn directly onto a book at the head and tail. The book on my bench is mostly single plates- there’s no fold to sew through and anchor the thread. I’m sewing a “dummy” band on linen around a hemp core. I’ll glue the linen to the spine #bookconservation #conservationispy
Two skeins of embroidery floss. Two scraps of hemp twine. A piece of linen with a two-color, sewn-on endband. Two threaded needles
January 21, 2025 at 7:28 PM
brownbindery.bsky.social
Last few books that have been on the bench.
#brownbindery #brownbinderyconservation #bookconservation #bookandpaperconservation #leatherconservation #woodconservation #furnitureconservation #guildofbookworkers #guildofbookworkers2025 #sapfm
January 11, 2025 at 6:31 PM
theul.bsky.social
The visit focused on the exchange of experiences around the consolidation of pigments, looking at case studies from the UL’s amazing special collections.

#CambridgeUniversityLibraries #CULconservation #ConservationCommunity #BookConservation #PigmentConsolidation
The Cambridge University Library Conservation Department receives a visit from colleagues at the Oxford Conservation Consortium (OCC). We see a group of conservation colleagues looking at an old book in the studio.
January 7, 2025 at 10:33 AM