 I am Amanda Richards with the UT Libraries and the Betsy B. Creepmore Special Collections and University Archives and today We're going to be doing page tear repairs two ways with tape and glue A book to repair So there's a bone folder All right So for the tape repair, you'll need a torn page and Here I have two examples one that has a curve and then one that's rather straight so we'll grab the The document repair tape and measure out the length of the tear Kind of eyeballing it And I like to tear instead of cut the tape because it Just blends into the paper better when you burnish it down with the bone folder So now we will try to separate the very very fragile tape from the backing and We'll place it Over top of this tear Now if there were a text on this page We would try to line up all of the edges of the font so that way you would be able to see the repair at all But it's a blank page. So there's no text Now with your bone folder or Teflon folder you will lightly burnish The tape and just work out all the air bubbles and work that tape into the tear and it should Disappear rather well Then for the top you can either fold it over or trim it off and I prefer to trim it off the top so with a pair of scissors or If you prefer The utility knife or scalpel you do that as well And you'll just trim close to the page without trimming the actual page You can do the other side, but that tends to be a little bit more bulky And I don't think it's really necessary so I usually don't All right, so then if you have the curve, it's the same process, but because your tape is straight. You'll just do it in two parts so a smaller Tear here it's like fast forward through all that All right, so now we'll place it on That tear up to the bend same process as before Now you're seeing the lines on the edges of this tape because this has come to me without the box Still on it, so it's picking up a lot of the hairs, which you normally wouldn't see But this is a withdrawal book anyway that I'm using so We'll just pretend it doesn't exist I'll measure out this one as well Same process as the first time There you go. So this is repairing a page tear by the gluing method You will need a book to repair two wax paper sheets PVA paintbrush Okay for this repair. We're going to be gluing the page tear and this time To do it the glue method you Need to have the tear that is going across the page at almost like a 45 degree angle so You can actually see the inside of the paper and Yep, it's about how that is. Okay So you'll start with putting a piece of wax paper down underneath and grabbing your paste in a very small brush and When you glue the tear you're going to Make sure that you're getting adjust the area of the page the surface of the tear that is Consider, I guess the inside of the page You don't want to get any of the printed area or surface of the paper Just the inside the less glue you use the less clean up and the neater your repair will be so now when you've pasted it you will lay the top page back down on top and Try to line up the text. You'll line up the text as evenly as you can and then Burnish that top page over top and this tarot usually is Not the neatest it leaves a lot of fibers in the paper frayed, yes And I will just pull those fibers over so it blends in a little bit better and I'll run my finger over at once On the front and the back to see if I need to tidy it up with a towel or a napkin make sure everything It's even Place the second piece of wax paper on top And leave it under a brick for about 20 minutes until that dries and that's a complete repair And today we're gonna be doing the page tear repair with Adhesive of some sort. I don't know