Author: thebookandpapergathering

Herbarium sheet display using the micro-dotted method

Under Raking Light: Sarah Lewery

Cabinet of Curiosities: The hornbook – teaching made handy

My Favourite Tool: Diamond-tipped engraving tool

Paper has memory

Deck the halls

My Favourite Tool: Keara Burr’s soft-touch tweezers

Picking up the (broken) pieces: adapting a treatment to stabilise and ensure access to severely damaged photographic glass plate negatives at The National Archives, UK

A ‘crystal palace’ for dust: building a dust extraction system on a budget