Re: [GBW] Reuters article: Alchemists of British Library preserve heritage

["Eisemann" <geisemann@xxxxxxxxx>]

Why would anyone click on a link to an article written by someone who does 
not know the difference between parchment and paper?  Elinor Eisemann
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From: "Mark Arend" <mwarend@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Subject: [GBW] Reuters article: Alchemists of British Library preserve 
heritage


> Alchemists of British Library preserve heritage
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> Bending over a mediaeval parchment, the curator carefully applies her
> "butterfly stitch" of minute strips of tissue to a rip in the
> age-browned paper.
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> The adhesive dabbed on the tissue is made from the bladder of a
> sturgeon, one of the centuries-old techniques used by the alchemists of
> the British Library to restore its ancient books.
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> Complete article at : 
> http://uk.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idUKL0316166220071107
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> Mark Arend
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> Outside of a dog a book is man's best friend.  Inside of a dog it's too 
> dark to read.
>                         ---Groucho Marx
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