Podcast Tag: book conservation

The Sword Guy Podcast

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Podcast Tag: book conservation

Roland Allen

Episode 201

The Notebook and a Zibaldone Salad with Roland Allen

Roland Allen is the author of The Notebook: A History of Thinking on Paper. The book is about the development of the notebook (i.e. a book you write in yourself) in European history, and it covers everything from the development of paper as a cheaper thing to write on than vellum, to wax tablets, to Italian accounting practices, to Leonardo da Vinci’s famous notebooks, to Darwin, to the modern Moleskine and where it actually […]
Aurelia Sedlmair

Episode 171

Washing paper and restoring books with Aurelia Sedlmair

Aurelia Sedlmair is a historical fencer, a translator, a transcriber, and is now studying the conservation of paper and books. Her Instagram is @freiraum.buch In our conversation we talk about what brought Aurelia to the Isle of Man, a small, independent island off the coast of England, and her study at West Dean College of Art and Conservation. We talk about what happens when you get a book restored, and Guy recommends the bookbinder […]