How to Restore Leather Covers on Old and Antique Books - Conditioning and Reconditioning Leather

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In this video, I talk about saving old leather books from a dry and crumbling future. A little bit of oil can change everything for a book! Please be sure to follow my instructions and do your own homework on this too! It can damage your book is done wrong.
Here are the links and the recipe I used for the oil:
80% Mink Oil / 20% Neatsfoot Oil
Mink Oil: amzn.to/3LcsST0
Neatsfoot Oil: amzn.to/44F9EMV
Other supplies you will need to properly recondition your book leather:
Plastic wrap (like the stuff you use for food), cotton rounds (like for makeup), Q-tips, several SOFT rag towels, and a place to dry the books.
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@antiquebookcollective Год назад

Here are the links and the recipe I used for the oil: 80% Mink Oil / 20% Neatsfoot Oil Mink Oil: amzn.to/3LcsST0 Neatsfoot Oil: amzn.to/44F9EMV

@VeritasEtAequitas 5 месяцев назад

Are you sure those are pH neutral for archival? Any acid can drastically accelerate the decay. pH neutral compounds are made specifically for books.

@antiquebookcollective 5 месяцев назад

@@VeritasEtAequitas I looked and couldn't find a single archival oil out there and oils can't be measured for pH as it is. That being said, the ones I used and shared were straight oil--no additives--and three of them are derived from animals as it is, so I'd sure hope they won't melt away our skin! Hahaha More seriously, I do understand the concern and, if you have issue using what I use, then you can try to find some stuff our on your own. I just share everything I've learned, found, and use. These oils are the best I've found so far and they've allowed me to bring hundreds of books back from the brink where they were literally falling apart. I wouldn't necessarily do what I do on thousand dollar or million dollar books, but I know that I'm treating the books I've got a lot better than their previous owners did or would.

@VeritasEtAequitas 5 месяцев назад

@@antiquebookcollective maybe look into the acidity and base testing that's used on motor oils then. They use TBN, total base number. Maybe they're just measuring additives that prevent acidification.

@jacktellsayarn877 10 месяцев назад

If you have very powdery leather you can use Klucel G leather consolidant. It's an adhesive dissolved in alcohol, it rapidly soaks into the powdery leather and as the alcohol evaporates it just leaves the consolidant within the leather which hardens and helps hold the leather together, preventing further flaking.

@antiquebookcollective 10 месяцев назад

Ah-ha-ha! Perfect! Thank you SO MUCH for the tip, I was hoping someone with more experience would chime in here! Thank you, thank you, thank you! :D I'll be sure to get my hands on some and try it out. :)

@VeritasEtAequitas 5 месяцев назад

And then SC6000

@antiquebookcollective Год назад

Hope you all like this one! Hope it helps you bring some books back from the brink!

@karenfitzpatrick6256 7 месяцев назад

Petroleum products like petroleum jelly or mineral oil, anything of this kind, a huge no no on leather. It dries the leather out terribly. Leather needs "feeding" occationally. And your combo seems like a great recipe. I left a whole long discussion on my thoughts about cleaning leather on your video for choosing restorative oils. I won't ramble it again here! You give excellent advice on handling and what is safe to use when caring for books. Thank you!

@antiquebookcollective 7 месяцев назад

I was curious about this! Especially with mineral oil because I heard a few people mention it. Thanks for setting the record straight here on petroleum products and books, I was cautious to try it out, but very curious too! Hahaha I actually picked several of the oils I did because they were animal products that I figured would "feed" the leather what it needed, so it's funny you said leather needs "feeding"! That's also why I'm a little hesitant with stuff like olive oil and linseed oil on the books, but I relented and gave linseed oil a try. While it wasn't my favorite for leather, I do love what it does for my tools and the other things I use it on! :) Thanks for all the comments and for sharing your knowledge and experience! :D

@antiquebookcollective 7 месяцев назад

I'm actually hoping to do another video on this in the future too as I learn more and more from commenters, so, really, thank you! :D

@AA-dq5uo 2 месяца назад

Ist this outdated? There was a big study initiated or granted by congress on leather books conditioning/preserving from old archives and national libraries... the conclusion was to stop using mink oil and other natural oils due to autoxidation and rancidity. Curators have long moved to synthetic oils for books and Oldtimers as well as antique leather chairs and so on.

@antiquebookcollective 2 месяца назад

Based on what I've seen, natural oils still work best. Rancidity may be an issue, but I've yet to see it happen even once. Dry leather that cracks and flakes off, however, is something I've seen a billion times. Several commenters on videos where I talk about this all agree that natural oils are the only way to go as well, which makes me think I'm on the right side of the boat. :) (P.S. There are other studies out there that say not to oil books at all, which is markedly a terrible conclusion. Ergo, I'd rather do my own research amd testing at this point, regardless of who said what.)

@AA-dq5uo 2 месяца назад

@@antiquebookcollective the problem with do Your own research is that its a matter of decades. I would think the Smithsonian will know better ;)

@antiquebookcollective 2 месяца назад

@@AA-dq5uo Maybe, but maybe not too. I'll keep doing things the way they've been done for preserving books for centuries, it's worked pretty well so far.

@jimgreen1932 5 месяцев назад

You talk too fast - try slowing down when you recommend products to use; l understood mink oil but not the second. Take a breath between sentences - you're like a machine gun! 🙂

@antiquebookcollective 5 месяцев назад

Sorry about that, only so many hours in a day, I guess! Hahaha I have all the oils I talk about and used in the description, so you can see those. :)

@VeritasEtAequitas 5 месяцев назад

You can slow it down yourself. I ran this at 1.5x speed.