Visiting Book Restorers

What a wonderful morning! I spent it in the most inspiring company of some amazingly talented and smart ladies. The dungeons... (ok, the ground floor)  of the Academic Library of the University Of Latvia where the magic happens.  Where talented and smart book restorers of Department of Technical Services give back life to old and antique books... the papers, the leather, the presses, the glues and the ribbons... Book lover’s paradise and a temple to Patience.  In the photo you can see a restorer painstakingly slowly removing remains of glue from every page of an old book. From EVERY single page!