Karen is experienced at making boxes and other enclosures for protecting book and archival collection items. Protective housing can be part of a preservation program to stabilise items during storage or handling such as a phase box, or offer strong protection during transportation for loan such as a cloth-covered drop-back box. Karen's instructions for the construction of the Expanding Slipcase are available below. She has made the following styles:
- Melinex Book Jacket
- Four-flap Enclosure
- Non-adhesive Phase Box
- Book Shoe
- Expanding Slipcase
- Cloth-covered Slipcase
- Cloth-covered Drop-back Box
- Quarter-leather Drop-back Box
Examples of Rehousing Projects
Before: Silver gelatine prints, gold tooling designs on tracing paper an mounted in glass frames, small book
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After: Rehoused in phase-boxes with fitted compartments of plastazoate and silversafe folders for photographs
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Before: Valuable wooden boarded binding in unsuitable housing
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After: Rehousing in double-wall, lock-lid box constructed from conservation board and conservation cloth and plastazoate padding
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Examples of styles Book Shoes made from archival folding box board |
Expanding Slipcase made from medium weight archival paper
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Cloth-covered, Drop-back box constructed from conservation board and library buckram
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 Updating... Ċ Karen Vidler, 10 Jun 2016, 01:18 Ċ Karen Vidler, 10 Jun 2016, 01:18
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