repairing

Text, diagrams, and step-by-step illustrations explain how to replace upholstery, restore joints, refinish furniture, reweave cane seats, and repair breaks and gouges.

Explains basic book repair techniques useful to libraries with limited budgets, as well as alternative, more ambitious conservation treatments, covering paper cleaning and mending, water damage, mold and mildew, hinge and spine repair, and protective enclosures.

Text and photographs describe a "hospital" in mid-town Manhattan where a "doctor" restores dolls from all over the world.