#it was a post about laszlo wwdits holding an old book with white gloves and I had to hold myself back from dumping this on the poor op | Explore Tumblr Posts and Blogs

werewolf-transgenderism · 2 years

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chanting to myself "do not do white gloves discourse on the post your just saw do not do white gloves discourse on the post you just saw do not do white gloves discourse on the post you just saw"

anyway. it is NOT proper technique to handle old books and manuscripts with the white gloves you see in tv/film!!

-loss of the manual dexterity you have with bare hands

-cotton gloves can lift pigments from pages (BAD!!)

-cotton gloves also can leave fibers/dirt/sweat that's trapped in the fabric behind (also bad!)

clean, dry hands are the best way to interact with old texts (unless it's photographic material or has a lot of metal, which oils on your skin can damage, or if it's one of those books made with arsenic green pigment or other toxic materials, in which case you probably don't want to touch that with your bare hands)

#it was a post about laszlo wwdits holding an old book with white gloves and I had to hold myself back from dumping this on the poor op #but it's true! don't use white gloves when handling old books/manuscripts etc! much better to just use clean dry hands #I have held royal charters from the 13th century in my bare hands I promise it's fine

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