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Dude at the craft fair tried to tell me my binding glue was 'wrong'
Some older guy walks up to my booth and says I should be using rice starch instead of PVA because 'that's what the monks used.' I just told him my books don't need to survive a medieval flood, lol. Anyone else get random unsolicited advice from strangers at shows?
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hannahsingh7d agoMost Upvoted
Did that guy also tell you to chisel your covers out of stone tablets? I had a lady at a flea market once spend fifteen minutes explaining why my natural beeswax finish was inferior to some ancient recipe involving varnish and egg yolks. She was real proud of it but smelled like a chemistry set and kept wiping her nose. Meanwhile my coasters have been sitting on coffee tables for three years without a single stain. Some people just need to feel smarter than the person making the actual thing.
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rubysingh7d ago
...and that's exactly the kind of energy that gets you banned from half the booths at the fair, honestly. I had a dude at a comic convention last year try to sell me on using horsehide glue for my bookbinding because "it's what the Renaissance binders used." Meanwhile my cat knocked over a jar of PVA last week and it dried clear and flexible, which is More than I can say for my patience with people who think traditional means better. @shanelee I get that rice starch has its fans, but PVA isn't going to crack on me when I'm trying to ship a book to someone in Arizona during summer. That's the real test, not surviving a flood.
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