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Published March 28, 2025 at 2560 × 1920 in Treating the Zoological Keepsake: Borrowing a Textile Conservation Approach for a Book Covered in Silk

Image of the inside of a book: the turn-ins are a light pink and the paste-down is a cream-colored paper. The nylon bobbinet is wrapped around the cover, and two pieces of rectangular mending paper hold together the top and bottom flaps to the side flap.

Inside the front board of The Zoological Keepsake, showing the heat-activated mending paper.

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