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An old binder in Portland showed me his trick for worn corners
Met this guy, Frank, at a small shop on Hawthorne about ten years back. He was fixing a 1920s ledger and just used a tiny bit of wheat paste mixed with paper pulp to build the corner back up. Said he learned it from his dad in the 60s. Anyone still use that method or have a better fix for cloth corners?
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andrew_harris37mo ago
Honestly, how often are those corners getting that much wear? Most of my old books sit on a shelf. If a corner's a little bent, I just leave it. Seems like a lot of work for something that doesn't really hurt the book.
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mary7687mo ago
That's a good point about books just sitting there. But it's the same mindset that lets small things pile up everywhere. You see it with a loose button, a flickering light, a squeaky door. People get used to the little broken bits instead of just fixing them in two minutes. It's how a whole house ends up feeling shabby.
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