How to maintain the collection of ancient books The four principles of maintenance of ancient book collection

1, the whole old as old, book repair, as far as possible to maintain the original characteristics of the book part, to maintain the original appearance, so that the value of the book's information, cultural relics value is not damaged due to repair.

2, minimum intervention, for example, should not be framed do not support. Archives, all the books whether there is no problem, the following are to be framed on a layer, think this is strong. In fact, from the point of view of restoration, this changes the paper properties, is unnecessary intervention. And, from the point of view of protection, mounted hard but more prone to bad.

3, materials and measures reversible, that is, in the restoration of antiquarian books to take any one measure can be repeated over and over again, for example, in the book to make up for the paper can be removed at any time to make up for the past. This is very important.

4, maximize the preservation of information, some people, the traditional practice is to restore the finished to achieve the "real" effect. But the correct approach should be after the patch, should let people see the traces of repair. But this is also to grasp a principle, such as yellow paper book I can not use white paper to make up, but than the original slightly lighter yellow. Standing at a distance of two meters, can not see, but a little closer to be able to see.