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I have a few very antique family letters that are falling apart. I may try your method on at least one letter to see how I do. At this point, I don't have anything to lose. Thank you!
This was such a beautiful video. Bless you sir. It’s seeing vids like this that shows not just your reseller side but the softer collector side trying to help restore history and historic artifacts. As a person who also loves paper and paper products I salute you. Bravo
There is a guy who does painting repair and it's the most harrowing thing you have ever seen when he transfers paintings over to new Muslin and does cleaning. Amazing stuff.
This is excellent work done, & it's great that you took the time to show in detail how to repair the papers. Loved every second. Thank you, Don. Charles in the UK
Fantastic over the shoulder look at repairing ephemera. Would love to see more even though it takes you time to repair it! With no sound except the music (also great choices) this could become my new ASMR video lol.
That was great from someone who always wonted to see it done and loves very old papers and books. Some thing I wish I had the time to try and get good at it Future hobby LOL
Don thank you so much for this video. I recently bought a Sesame Street record album w/book and the book was completely ripped in half all the way through. I'm going to try this method and add it to my collection.
Same here. I also have Willcox and Gibbs manual which is so fragile, full of holes and yellow. Edges are crumbled to pulp. I have no idea where to start in restoring it.
Thanks for the video. Can you help advise on details of the more expensive tape for more valuable books? And whether the very best archival tape would rival say 3.5 grade Japanese tissue or an invisible repair? Regards, John
Fantastic Don. I have done minor touch-ups but have always wondered if it could be done to the extent you just demonstrated. Thank you for sharing you expertise.
Off the wall question ,how do you restore hand written papers ,for example music that's been written and somehow got wet and is now sticking together from years ago??
I just found a 1904 family wedding document that was rolled and is in four curved sections. Any suggestions on how to flatten it so it can be restored?
Thanks Don. I may try similar repair on old paper I don't care about. The paper repair looks easier than the color restoration. You would need a good eye to match things, plus you ould need a good set of pencils. You do other art so you have an advantage on the pencils.
Great job. But for those who doesn't want to put this much work in, post it for sale and tag Junk Journals, scrapbooking and paper craft. WE LOVE this type of stuff. If it is broken and messed up most collectors don't want it and that's when we step in and say "hey! we can craft with that!!" :)
I assume the repairs are then disclosed in the listing? How long was the process for this piece? And does the additional value make it worth the time spent?
Don! Great job, excellent as always . . . I just knew you were going to get to the colouring . . with Don there is no limits ;) The Bone tool was new to me, I will simply have to get one . . I do lots of repairs on my maps and prints when called for and do hand colouring watercolour repairs or often add colour to items - thanks for sharing and motivating me to 'go youtube' I have not used the archival pencils - looks like I could be adding a new string to my bow! Thank you and stay safe!
I loved this video. You did an amazing job. I have some old magazines and newspapers I’m going to try this on. There’s a craft store in my town with the archival tissue. Thank you, Don.
Huh, super neat! I've never done a repair like this one, but I could have made a chunk more money of I had. Filing this away for the next antique book I get that's in need of repair and is worth doing it to! :)
I worked at a poster/paper restoration studio for 5 years, and while some of this helps, these repairs will be totally obvious. When adding patches or corners, you’ve got to mitre the edges of the new and old paper, or you end up with a really thick area.
You can't mitre tissue paper. It's NOT possible. Nor am I trying to hid anything, but rather stabilize the item. Most repairs shown are not very noticeable either. Any repair that is non-reversible is never recommend by any museum so you would never mitre the original item either. Doing the repair to frame is far different then a museum repair. One is for presentation, while the other is to preserve the historical item in way that can be completely removed at any time.
A sharp razor cut of 1/4-1/2 inch on both sides of the staple sides would make it look better without all the repairs. People would not care about the difference and would l;ook better. Just my opinion.
You should NEVER EVER remove a single thing from an original item. You would be altering it, and it could NEVER be brought back from there. If you do that to a baseball card for example that would be a no-no and could get you in legal trouble if not disclosed as well. Restoration is the only safe way. No historian on the planet would want an altered item as you suggest, and would be very happy with a archival repair as shown.
