Tag Archives: Preservation Week 2021

How to Make a Collapsible Punching Cradle: New Video on Our YouTube Channel

We’ve reached the end of Preservation Week and what better way to celebrate than with a fun how-to video on our Lab’s YouTube channel?!

This video goes over how to make a collapsible punching cradle, step-by-step. Punching cradles are a useful bookbinding tool to have on hand in your toolbox. They allow you to create uniform sewing stations in your signatures or gatherings when you are preparing to sew a textblock. Best of all, this type of punching cradle is fully collapsible and easy to store while not in use; especially when you make one of these simple slipcases to hold all the pieces.

Here you can see a collapsed punching cradle stored in a paper slipcase made with marbled paper (left) and a punching cradle assembled and ready for use (right).

Don’t forget to “like” our video and subscribe to our YouTube channel to stay in the loop when we post new videos to the channel. If you decide to make your own punching cradle, we’d love to know what you thought of the video or, even better, tag us in a photo of it on Instagram (@thepreservationlab).

We hope you’ve enjoyed celebrating Preservation Week 2021 with us! We look forward to celebrating our 11th annual Preservation Week next year…maybe even in person this time?!

Jessica Ebert (UCL) – Conservation Tech & Photographic Documentation Specialist

Preservation Week 2021: Preservation in Action

Join the Lab in celebrating ALA’s Preservation Week next week, April 26th-30th. We have a lot of fun virtual happenings to check out:

Monday 26th – The Lab will be taking over the @cincylibrary Instagram stories to break down all the different facets of preservation.

Tuesday 27th – Head over the Cincinnati & Hamilton County Public Library’s blog to see what our “Favorite Tools” are and why we chose them.

Wednesday 28th – We’ll be sharing our “Favorite Treatments/Projects” right here on our blog.

Thursday 29th – Catarina and Jessica will be “Live in the Lab” at 12pm for an Instagram Live event hosted by @cincylibrary

Friday 30th – We will have a new video up on our YouTube channel – “How to Create Your Own Collapsible Punching Cradle”.

We hope that you can join us for all the activities we have in store for Preservation Week 2021. If you can’t wait for the celebration to begin, then check out our past Preservation Week activities!

Jessica Ebert (UCL) – Conservation Tech & Photographic Documentation Specialist & Catarina Figueirinhas [UCL] – Senior Conservation Tech