The heat from the bulb made the old glue and paper fibers release this weird savory scent that filled my whole living room for 3 days, so has anyone else had a vintage book give off a weird smell when you heat it up?
Started a folded book art piece for my sisters birthday and the pattern called for 5 pages to be sliced at a specific angle. My exacto knife slipped on page 3 and tore a chunk out of the middle of the text block. Tried glue, tried paper pulp, even tried coloring the white edge with marker and it all looked worse. Ended up carefully cutting the same shape from another old dictionary and stitching it in with thread. Total repair time was 12 hours over two weeks, way longer than the actual folding took. Has anyone else had a catastrophic slip mid project and how did you fix it without starting over?
Last Tuesday I tried folding pages from an old atlas into a little vase for my kitchen counter, and it collapsed into a soggy heap when I put a wet stem in it. I realized I treated the paper like it was waterproof when the glue I used just dissolved on contact with moisture. Has anyone found a sealant or coating that actually keeps folded book art sturdy around water, or do you just stick to dry displays?
Was in my kitchen last Thursday making a folded book page spiral for a gift, and my cheap glue gun decided to drip hot glue all over the cover of a 1970s atlas I was using as a base. I tried scraping it off with a butter knife but it left this weird shiny smear that's now stuck forever. Has anyone else had luck fixing melted glue on an old book cover, or should I just paint over the whole thing?