Te Waimate Mission Book Conservation | Heritage New Zealand Pouhere Taonga

Paul Taylor of Spiral Path Book Studio demonstrates some of the techniques involved in book restoration and conservation of rare historic books from Te Waimate Mission.
Numbering almost 700 volumes in total, the book collection represents the largest-known single collection of Church Missionary Society (CMS) and missionary-owned books in New Zealand, with 400 predating 1850.
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[@Bootbitch]

I wish this vid was a bit more in depth and longer. Would love to see each process more.

[@Dizzyish]

Impressive care and attention to detail. I would like to know details about the tissue paper that was used to cover that entire page as well as the type of adhesive used to affix it onto the original page, also, would that provide a durable and hardwearing solution to further intense use?

[@maestromecanico597]

Beautiful.

[@faridahmed5122]

As the archivist and conservator eye's it's very meaning full. Very interesting

[@Sparksame]

Great to see these taonga being cared for so well

[@mariapatriciachavez214]

❤❤❤ great 👍😃

[@EvertvanIngen]

That's amazing!

[@KhanKhan-kn2zx]

Good

[@deettekearns9092]

Wish we could’ve seen all the books after mending.

[@celine5865]

So he's the Baumgartner for books Interesting.

[@andrewfoster1641]

Oh, I think he's a distance from Baumgartner....1) too quick; 2) too many unexplained supplies and lingo; 3) misses details (e.g. distilled water?, not just water?).

[@marcosalan726]

mágico este trabalho

[@mickelodian]

Whats the name of the soundtrack you used at the start? Its really lovely.

[@MalcolmBirtwell]

RIP Paul, old friend 💙

[@ritujamitra718]

Can you please tell me the chemicals and other papers you used for the repairing of the pages ???. in details.

[@ricdavid7476]

amazing thanks a lot

[@marcosalan726]

magnífico eu preciso aprender

[@giovannirevilla2638]

I do some antique bible repair and I’m not a professional or went to school for this.. its just a hobby thing I do. I’m guessing the materials I see are “ Shoji paper as Japanese paper, shoji paste, laid paper deferent types, reemay fiber tissue or ruscombe mill tissue, and leather dye.” Water base solution: distilled or deionised. Hydrogen Peroxide or ammoniated water. I don’t know.. it works for me🤷🏻‍♂️

[@EudaemoniusMarkII]

Great video! Where can one go to learn these techniques, materials, etc.?

[@maryimhof]

possibly Italy

[@FerrariDMC]

Could a magnesium bicarbonate bath like you have done here take the yellowing out of old paper from a deconstructed comic book?

[@chrisb3989]

Bravo

[@user-oje7zk4ec81]

Hello with what can i clean dust from the gold engraved lether binding? Dust coverd golden engravings on binding for years and years. Thank you in advance and sry for mistakes in writing i hope you will understand.

[@WIZARDWERX]

Thx

[@FatmaIsFaith]

if I need more information about preparing and fixing antique books? how to contact??

[@dchino8679]

What kind of tissue paper was that, which went over the page and dried clear?

[@themadmannn]

Did you find out the answer to this question?

[@worlds2ndbestlawyer]

It may be Japanese paper..

[@251Musicman]

It's japanese kozo paper, something similar to this: store.hiromipaper.com/collections/japanese-papers/products/tengucho-ash It comes in many different weights and styles for different applications, and the dyed tissue he used for the leather hinge repair in the beginning is of the same sort. These papers are handmade with mulberry or other sorts of bark which have very long fibers, perfect for providing stability to a joint while making the repair easily reversible in the future if necessary.

[@JusaKiki]

oh wowwwwww great

[@eliecermieles1426]

Como se llama el material transparente que utiliza para cubrir la hoja?

[@therestorationofdrwho1865]

Good, use as many traditional restoring methods as possible as they work so much better. It's true.

[@EternalShadow1667]

Not always. For example, in art restoration, old restorers often messed up by using strong chemicals that are near impossible to remove.

[@JanetteHeffernan]

The late Master Bookbinder Peter Goodwin was one of the last journeymen bookbinders. He bound books for over 64 years and was the Library Manager at Auckland City Libraries. Peter did not use animal glue. He said in Auckland it lasted just ten days as the insects got at it. He used a latex glue on everything as he wanted his bindings to last. You can see his advice on KZbin Glue kzbin.info/www/bejne/i6Kze62ngbCdi5Y (sorry no link) where he says why animal glue has been superceded. Peter was responsible for the First Editions of Shakespeare Folios so he is an expert in this area. Sadly Brittle Book Syndrome has made repairing books printed on acid paper not worth the effort..

[@jaglinuxmint]

Digitize those books and make them available for public freely

[@sahadkp3849]

I know this work

[@DailyJobsClasses]

Hi

[@jayroland9481]

So you're saying that by gluing a strip of Japanese tissue to a broken hinge, that will support the board to the spine? I very much doubt that, it might look good (and that's debateable) but it certainly is not a proper fix for a broken hinge.

[@AbdAlgani1999]

يخرب بيتك رجع جديد

[@gerryarty8342]

Not enough detai to try this oneself, vocie mice too low, green book repair colour looks darker green and uneven ? A good video but could be much nicer!

[@brendahart9930]

Why not using white cotton gloves?

[@s.p.8803]

White gloves are a myth. They put books at risk.

[@YoungManDub]

If he only knew the hundreds of thousands of dollars he could make posting videos of this with "ASMR" attached to the title.

[@dingoprairie]

All of this involves animal cruelty.. animal glue, calf leather. I'd just throw the stupid book in a fire.

[@wasweiich9991]

Your "argument" is as stupid as it sounds. Basically you are saying "look they are using parts of animals that died anyway becasue of slaughter for meat consumption!!!! THEY ARE SOO EVULL! better throw those parts away and let them rot!" Also, you should really stop being so self righteous. Do you reall think nature gives a damn about other animals? Do you think this world gives a damn about what or who lives on its surface or after what rules they handle their enviorment? No. It doesn't. Humans are just that: Other animals living their lifes on this planet, though they do it a lot more effectively than other species. So as long as nature doesn't give a damn about your moral views, maybe you should better shut up and stop trying to romanticize a world that really is not romantic at all, but a constant battle for survival? Also, if you stop using animal stuff, then please by all means go and live in a mud hut again - because there is animalcruelty in a LOT of things you probably use every day without even thinking about it. And I really hope you don't use any medicine either.

[@wasweiich9991]

"Humans are not "animals". That's a serious insult to the more intelligent, aware and evolved animals to compare them to human monsters.. those ugly mutated hairless things except for those few hairs sprouting out the tops of their ugly heads, with their gangly alien limbs that breed like viruses." The level of intelligence is irrelevant. Completely and utterly. Dolphins are highly intelligent as well. That does not change the fact that they belong to the category of "animals". So what are humans? Maybe rocks? Or plants, maybe? No. You just WISH humans to NOT belong to said group. Nothing but wishful thinking from your side there. "Animals are far superior to humans. Animals always contribute to and are part of an ecosystem and a planetary biosphere while humans are not part of anything much less ecosystems, they are simply monstrous planet destroying cancers on life." Bullshit. Animals can destroy ecosystems as much as humans can. In fact this IS what has happened throughout MOST of the history of this planet. Welcome to reality. Also we are not part of anything? Yes we are. Many don't behave like we are - like you for example - but that doesn't mean we could survive without the rest of the world, which would have to be a prerequisite for your argument to hold water. Also, if you are such a monster: Why do you still live and don't end it already? You are pretty hypocritical, you know? " Animals don't indulge in mass murdering rampages like humans love to do, like setting up artificial breeding of animals in their concentration camps for torture and mass murder. " They don't? Chimpanzees are known to actually wage war against other groups of chimpanzees and even eat their killed enemies. Ants hold greenflies as their "milkcows" and so forth. Also: How many species would go extinct when then eed for their meat would plummet, hm? Have you ever thought about that? The fact that they even live AT ALL today is due to humans. Take milkcows for exmaple: theywould be absolutely incapable of ever living on the outside world without humans. If you ban their milk, you kill an entire species off. Evolution is a bitch, huh? "Humans are mass murder, destruction and suffering and they poison all life wherever they go. That's what they were born to do, and that's what they will take with them to the hell they came from." Geez, when you put it that way, i really wonder why you havn't killed yourself already... oh right.. hypocicy. Again: if you dislike it so much: why are you not living in a mud hut in the forest and are using electronic devices that are the result of the EVIL HUMANS being inventive that did not want to live in dirt and mud like you do? "I shouldn't say ALL humans since there are a tiny minority of them that are exceptions to the rule, but those few exceptions are overwhelmed by the monsters who eventually hunt down and kill anyone who doesn't believe in their mass murdering torturing frenzies." And let me guess: YOU are part of THE EXCEPTION, huh? While using devices and electronics that is destroying the enviorment and poisioning large areas (aluminium production)? Yeah right, mate. You are just another evil human is destroying stuff, while trying to make people beleive that he is not or somehow "different". And if you are not part of the few exceptions: again: why don't you live in a mudhut? Why are YOU using all the nice things that the EVIL, EVIL humans have created, while preaching against it? Because, you, my friend, are a hypocrite. A hypocrite that wants OTHERS to do something, but is either unable or unwilling or even both, to do it himself - just as a priest calling to others to live humble lifes, while he himself is living in a palace. You are disgusting, you know that? " Now when humans destroy the only life planet that supports them, that results in mass suicide as well, but that's all part of what the human nightmares from hell are all about." Again: if you dislike civilization: go and live a virtuous life in the forest. What is keeping you from it? Ah i know.. central heating, electricity, the internet, the fact that you would not survive a week on your own and that you are a hypocrite.

[@wasweiich9991]

"Cows and livestock are artificial . They're bred artificially by humans to suffer and die. They're not in any way part of Earth's ecosystems." Says who? Also how are they "artificial"? One can even argue that there is, in fact, nothing"artificial" on this planet to this day. Why? Because everything we do is simply harnessing processes that are already there. In nature those relationships are called symbiosis. "Wild cattle wouldn't breed into billions to torture and kill themselves. Duh." So? They would however get hunted and killed by all other predators just as much. Or suffer and die through deseases anyway. " Name one species that spreads pollution globally, destroys the Earth with artificial useless crap like the plastic waste which is now spread over the entire ocean or that chemical crap to destroy the land and pollinators or sets up concentration camps of livestock that breed billions and further pollute the Earth.None." It is not artificial. Humans merely harness processes that already exist in nature and which nature permits. It doesn't mean that the result is always good, but if you dislike it so much: Why are you still living on this planet and using technologies that do PRECISELY what you are supposedly against? Because you are a virtuesignaling hypocrite. That is why. you feign sympathy for the poor, poor animals, while nature does not give a single DAMN about your or any creatures wellbeing. In fact, nature wants to see you dead ALL the TIME. Only people who have never lived under real world situations could be so out of touch with reality like you. Newsflash: Nature is just showing how things are going: and either you eat, or you fail and will die out. That is what nature is all about. And nature does not give a single damn if one species goes extinct or as before, almost all of them. As long as humans do not manage to wipe every living cell from this planet, life will continue and adapt to the stuff we left behind. Welcome to the real world, where nature and the elements don#t give a damn about you or wether you self-flagellate yourself for whatever you think is sooooo bad. I even agree with you that we should not pollute the enviorment and such - but that's about it. If you don't want to eat meat - sure, fine by me.I used to be a vegetarian as well for over 10 years - but then i grew up and realized that nature itself does not give a damn. Wolves and lions kill young animals every day - but i don't see lions crying about those. "in the history of the Earth. When the Earth is dead, your dumb argument supporting the humans is irrelevant. So you lost this argument, human." Earth will not die, you pseudointellectual numbskull. For that it would have to be possible to whipe out EVERY living cell of the planet - and it is likely that not even a nuclear holocaust would be capable of that. Nature is a capable to adapt to more than humans could ever do. At the same time nature is also more capable of destroying moret han humans ever could. This planet is going to be engulfed in burning heat from our own sun in asbout 500 million years - which is on the astronomical scale a pretty short time. And you think that anyone would give a damn about the tiny rock somewhere in space? And you have the audacity to tell me how i 'lost' this argument, while you simply ignored most of it? You didn't even asnwer my most pressing question: How are you different? And why are you using technologies and comforts that are supposedly bad? And why are you not living in a mud hut in a forest?

[@wasweiich9991]

"humans don't give back to nature ever. you know it. That makes humans aliens and thieves of nature and cows are not natural. " Oh really? And what do animals "give back to nature?" Like when they die? Newsflash: humans die and rot as well. Seriously I'm done here. I actually feel a bit bad humiliating the mentally deficient here... " The wouldn't die without humans because without humans they wouldn't exist by the billions. " Are you stupid? Answer: Yes you are. So if it wasn't for humans, all other predators would not kill your precious animals? Damn.. that is a whole new level of stupid. I have bad news for you: Your parents lied to you. The wild dog didn't cuddle the bunny with its teeth. " And it's one billion years before the planet gets too hot, IF the dumb as rocks human scientists are correct, which I doubt seriously." if it is 500 million or a billion - it is irrelevant. The end-result is the same. Earth will die without any doing of humans. And you know what could even happen before? Another asteroid could hit earth again and this time finish off the planet for good. And no one will give a damn if life on earth goes out. It#s probably something that happens rather often in the vast expense of the universe.

[@AverageJoe2020]

Gr8 B8 M8.