Subject: Wax seals in bound books
We have a book which we should send off for conservation rebinding. It is made up of documents, some of which have red wax seals on them. They have created indentations on the neighbouring pages, but they are still intact. Now that they are going for rebinding. I can't assume that they will continue to be protected. Is it possible to bind something like Goretex, capillary matting, or Sympatex as its neighbouring page? I recognise that the smoother surface of any of these should be placed next to the wax seal, so that the fibres won't catch, but I was wondering if anyone has done anything like this. If so was it successful? If not, does anyone know of a better alternative, or any other suggestions? *** Conservation DistList Instance 20:21 Distributed: Wednesday, October 18, 2006 Message Id: cdl-20-21-016 ***Received on Tuesday, 10 October, 2006