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friend2cptsolo Elite user Spent all this time on the Cafe' and all I have to show for it is 445 Posts |
I have a paperback about 200 pages and wondering if anyone has every tried to age a book. The cover will be easy by lightly sanding and then using a standard method..... but I looking for a method for the pages. Any help would be most appreciated.
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WitchDocChris Inner circle York, PA 2614 Posts |
I have very limited experience in this - but I can give one piece of advice: Tea and coffee can be used to make paper looked aged, but they will both make the paper wrinkle and you may not like that look, and also since both have acid they will eventually deteriorate the paper.
Good luck! Hopefully someone with some theatrical aging knowledge will chime in.
Christopher
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Al Desmond Inner circle Secret Mountain Lair in Conifer, Co 1511 Posts |
Put it on a shelf, wait 100 years.
presto. |
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friend2cptsolo Elite user Spent all this time on the Cafe' and all I have to show for it is 445 Posts |
Back Story::: I just got done aging a deck of tarot cards using shoe polish and the finest grit sand paper and they look great... I figure this would be a great way to do the cover of the book.
I also tried the tea method on the tarot cards sanded the cards to make the absorb the tea then put them into the tea and within a five min soak the some of the cards actually started separating from the backing. I never could get then dry without them wrinkling up. I tried to press them and put them in a dehyradtor .. a few different methods to dry them but also keep them flat. nothing worked to keep them flat and dry at the same time. I eventually go the cards dry but never into a usable type condition, but the aged effect looked great but the cards were wrinkled up like potato chips. Any way that being said. Being able to age all 200 pages of this book and still keep it relativity flat and well kept looking just older looking I think will be hard. It may come down to working on it page by page. |
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friend2cptsolo Elite user Spent all this time on the Cafe' and all I have to show for it is 445 Posts |
My other thought on doing this was to get a tea bag or a coffee bag and get it damp but not dripping wet and go page by page and lightly brush the discolorization on and then take an iron and press the page dry. This will keep the pages flat.
Maybe I will finish by 2017?? |
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George Ledo Magic Café Columnist SF Bay Area 3042 Posts |
First question is, how much do you want to age it? That paperback was published in (insert year here), so it can't be older than that.
Second question is, why do you want to age it? Is the book supposed to be really old, or is it used and distressed, or has it been buried for years, or something else? It's really easy to get carried away with aging and distressing, so the first thing we do in theatre is to find a sample of the real thing and study how it aged and why, and then try to duplicate it. Here's a freebie: http://www.themagiccafe.com/forums/viewt......orum=173 Keep us posted.
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Tony Iacoviello Eternal Order 13151 Posts |
Books printed on pulp paper can be aged by baking in the oven on a low heat for a long time. It dries out the paper and turns it yellowish.
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Harley Newman Inner circle 5117 Posts |
Baking can also turn it very brittle. Also, it'll probably stink up the oven and the house.
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The Curator V.I.P. Beware Vampire, I have 3909 Posts |
Carry the book in your pocket (if the size permits it) during a moment.
If you need a XVIIthe century paperback, it will be a more complex... |
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friend2cptsolo Elite user Spent all this time on the Cafe' and all I have to show for it is 445 Posts |
I am saying the book is written in 1932 and my grandfather gets a hold of the book about 1944-1945 reads the heck out of it.... makes notes ect.... eventually I get a hold of it in 1996
so in 1944 it is already 12yrs old but it could have been barely touched and sat on a self in a book story??? but the use comes from the years after that til he eventaully shleves it or boxes stuff up, so no I am not wanting to have a completely wrecked looking but just worn and used.... I can imaging the cover will have the most wear and the the corners etc... pages will most likely be discolored to some degree |
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WitchDocChris Inner circle York, PA 2614 Posts |
Well, from my own experience of reading the heck out of a book, you'll have slightly frayed corners on the cover, at least one corner creased, the spine will have those lines from being opened too far, the pages will be darker near the edges, particularly the top corners. I hold a book at the edges and flip the page either from the top right corner, or from the middle. Some of my really worn books have a sort of divet in the page in the middle of the outer edge from my thumb.
Maybe go to a used book store and look for an old used paperback and see what it looks like?
Christopher
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YitzhakNoDice Special user Portland, Oregon 517 Posts |
I would echo what Chris says. For example, my mother's high school French textbook is in fantastic shape except for marginal notes, dogearred pages, and some pages that the book opens to more readily. I have seen people go too far in aging paper that is not that old (and 1932 is not that old), I would advise to find some examples before over-aging.
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friend2cptsolo Elite user Spent all this time on the Cafe' and all I have to show for it is 445 Posts |
Good Advice on over aging
I will definately go find something from the time period and go from there. There are easy things to do to get it worn looking without going crazy so I will start with the corners and the spine. I have two books, just in case getting another one is not a prob. But thanks again for the comments. I think, maybe what this should look like may differ from what an actual period book does. |
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Peckham Loyal user 225 Posts |
Try baking it in an oven. When I was in highschool we used to make paper scrolls this way.
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the Sponge Inner circle Atlanta 2771 Posts |
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On Dec 10, 2015, Tony Iacoviello wrote: I sometimes wonder if people even read the thread before posting... |
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gothicmagic Inner circle Ubiquitous 1374 Posts |
Also be aware of smell if you use the coffee, tea or shoe polish get rid of the smell they are easily picked up, let your story tell you what it should smell like if it was in an old bookstore it will smell one way if it was always read and on a nightstand of a favorite aunt it will smell another (and you can use the smell to bring them along, for instance "my aunt always loved lilacs, and this was one of her favorite books, whenever I hold it I can almost feel her reading over my shoulder.....)
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MentalistCreationLab Inner circle 1528 Posts |
Start by breaking the spine. After that sand the pages or hit them with a little steel wool. If you do this lightly and not over do it which is the key then break a corner by bending it a few times. You have a book that looks well read. You do not need to scuff each page a few pages in association with the spine breaks will seem visual correct. last step is to dog ear a couple of pages in places that are spread out in the book like it was read and someone stopped and dog eared a page as a book mark.
When aging think about how a book is read then apply those things to the new book. Just do not over do it too much aging seems fake. If you want to tone it toss it in the back window of a car and the sun will fade it naturally in a couple of days. The last step if you want it to have a mold sort of smell spray it with a cheap musk cologne from the dollar store you want the cheap stuff then put it in the back window of a car. Do artificially age anything takes a couple of days and done this way it looks authentic and not fake. Hope this helps |
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Godzilla Inner circle Tied & Untied Witches on 5316 Posts |
What's the book title you're wanting to age ?
"If you watch Godzilla backwards, it's about a big ass lizard who helps rebuild a half burnt-down city, then moonwalks back into the ocean"
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friend2cptsolo Elite user Spent all this time on the Cafe' and all I have to show for it is 445 Posts |
Maybe a musky smelll from storage but nothing more than that.
I aged some Tarot Cards with shoe polish and they look great but now the strong smell is there so I want to take most of that strong smell away. At first when I started this thread I did think of discoloring the pages with some method like tea or coffee but now I think I will not go that route and do some more slight things like the corners, cover, sun bathing the book and dog ears. That should really make the thing looked used but taken care of also. |
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Nyama Possessor Veteran user Under the Shade Tree 322 Posts |
If you wanted a light dust-covered touch to the cover or edges of the book (which has been presumably sitting on a shelf for a l-o-n-g time), then you can apply Fuller's Earth with a flour sieve to the area you want "dusted". Just like you see in the movies, when they pick an old book off the shelf and blow the dust off it. Although I don't recommend doing that, it's too dramatic!
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