The Fix

The entire double page spread split right down the middle. Everything else was finished. Here's what I did:

Gently removed the front piece of suede paper I had used to repair the outside spine.
Carefully pried up the text and tag art from along the inside gutter of the book.
Cut a piece of tyvek from an envelope and painted it the same color as the page background.
Reglued the section of right hand pages that had fallen off.
Reinforced the outside spine again with cheesecloth.
Glued the painted tyvek along the inside gutter, tucking it under text and tag art.
Reglued text and replaced text that had been destroyed (thank goodness I still had a few pages of the book in reserve!)
Got ticked off because the tyvek didn't line up perfectly at the top and bottom. (sloppy!)
Got happy because it dried and looks pretty good, considering!

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