Books that have sustained loss or damage can be repaired with sympathetic materials, or rebound and re-covered.
Inexpensive cloth bindings were removed…
…and replaced with hand-tooled leather and papers marbled by the binder.
A children’s book…
from the 1940s…
becomes an elegant Rubow binding.
A mid-century cookbook before rebinding…
…and after.
A damaged binding from 1826.
The leather covering is split and the boards are detached.
Boards and spine can be saved with the help of a new piece of leather.
Missing spine cloth provides an opportunity to strengthen the binding over all.
New cloth protects the sewing and text.