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Re: [BKARTS] book binding or book cloth tape
Kathy, and Selene,
Not mention that repair methods should always be reversible. That sticky
tape is horrible to remove to do a real repair to a book.
You will also notice that Talas tape is unglued.
Dave
Kathleen Garness wrote:
Those wide sticky tapes are often used for down-and-dirty, quick ways
to repair spines, add reinforcement to corners, or as an expedient
replacement for bookcloth in small areas or craft applications. It's
not inexpensive, and the color range is pretty limited! Paper Source
often uses it in their bookbinding classes, but my sense is that a
professional bookbinder would avoid it like the plague, preferring
instead to use regular bookcloth - purchased or home-made - for their
purposes. Bookcloth has the advantage of being fairly repositionable
when still wet, unlike the sticky tape.
I remember going thru a few rolls of wide book tape when the spines of
our church's hymnals and Books of Common Prayer were getting all
ripped up and we were still some years away from replacements.
Miserable effort, trying to get the glue off your scissors!! : / This
was twenty years ago, and long before I made any books myself.
Actually my frustration with the tape and lack of easily-available
repair information was one of the things that made me want to take
classes in bookbinding later on....
Kathy G
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