Pressing flowers between pages saved my broken spine

I had this old 1920s poetry book where the hinge completely gave out, and I found a trick using a 2 inch strip of japanese tissue and wheat paste. You lay the tissue along the hinge, let it dry flat under a few heavy books for 48 hours, and that thing holds like new. It cost me about 4 bucks in materials from a shop in Portland. Has anyone else tried this method on a really stubborn text block?

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john_fisher23d ago

Did you press the flowers in it first, or is that a separate job for the book?

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