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I’m really hoping to preserve the original covers for this book about World War I combat aviation. 
My copy of Simone de Beavoir’s classic feminist text was desperately in need of a new binding. (The old one was purple, so… you know.) I’ve removed the old binding and cleaned the spine, but now I have to choose paper and cloth and design a new binding. That part is really difficult for me, so it may be a while before I post pictures of the finished product.
A smattering of blank journals:
Coptic binding
Marc Chagall cover
cloth corners
made endpapers
hand-sewn headbands
The New Milton Cross’ Complete Stories of the Great Operas. This book belonged to my Great Aunt Adelle, and it was in pretty good shape until a dog gnawed on it. I decided to rebind it.
I brought home this stack of books from a library sale a couple of months ago with the intention of practicing some book repair. I’ve started on a couple of them, and I’ll try to upload the finished results later in the weekend. My favorite part of the whole process is taking the old and damaged books apart and cleaning the spine. It’s super messy which, for a mess-aphobe like myself, is incredibly liberating. Controlled mess = crazy good time. 
