Paperwoman stayed local last week as she had the opportunity to take a tour of the book conservation lab and bindery at Brown University’s John Hay and Rockefeller Libraries through the Watts Program. Here’s some quick glimpses of what was she saw, including an ancient Ethiopian hand-scribed, Christian manuscript with coptic binding, a wonderful piece of ephemera of P.T. Barnum’s Rarities, some very cool tools and beautifully aged books and other learning tools.
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- mysterious book under research
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- coptic binding
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- hand-scribed text and illuminaries.
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- P.T. Barnum’s Rarities
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- Siamese Twins Chang & Eng
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- Jane Campbell-Connecticut Giantess
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- handmade tools for cover decorations
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- the Bindery at the Rock
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- colorful weights
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- for repairing spines
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- Jacques sheers-big as a bed!
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- Japanese paper cover-almost looks like leather.
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