Accidentally ripped my first endpaper today, but fixed it somehow

Was working on a rebind of a 1920s poetry book in my tiny apartment in Portland and the endpaper tore right at the hinge. I panicked for a sec, then grabbed some Japanese tissue and wheat paste and patched it from behind. You can barely see it now. Anyone else have close calls like that?

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terry_jones3d agoMost Upvoted

Japanese tissue and wheat paste is a pretty classic fix, but maybe it's just me, I always use a bit of PVA mixed in with the paste so the repair has a little more flex.

jenniferw823d ago

Hold up, you mix PVA into your wheat paste? That's wild, I've never heard of anyone doing that for book repairs. Doesn't it make the tissue all stiff and plasticky instead of keeping that nice natural flex?

claire_ramirez1d ago

Hold on, is this really worth debating that hard?