The local library's rare book room showed me a new spine lining technique last Tuesday

I was in the conservation lab at the Brooklyn Public Library helping with some 1800s texts and the head archivist showed me how they use a silk crepe lining instead of standard mull. The flexibility on those narrow spines was wild compared to what I get at home with my usual materials. Has anyone else tried silk linings on small format books?

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the_terry10d ago

But does silk actually hold up over time compared to the standard stuff?

fiona_nelson5110d ago

Re: "does silk actually hold up over time" - I've actually seen 50 year old silk linings in BETTER shape than the mull on the same era books. The key is getting the paste right, not the material itself.