Keeping Tarot Edges Clean

[FLizarraga]

ersatz white bread is apparently also good for drawing pus out from a boil

And THEN feed it to the birds???

Ewwwwwwwwwwwww! NO!

Why not? Even snake venom can be medicinal.

You know you are officially now never gonna lose the scarf association, right...?

I wonder why...

 

[Padma]

One can only hope I don't get a permanent association with boils!

I did some digging and came up with an old archived thread from AT on the subject:

http://www.tarotforum.net/library/16/2004-05/how-to-clean-the-sides-of-your-cards-20040508.shtml

and there is also this, from a playing card forum:

http://www.themagiccafe.com/forums/viewtopic.php?topic=59088&forum=2

I think the best tip I saw on there is to use a piece of silk to rub away the dirt. Someone else suggested a rubber cement eraser, and I know for a fact that the Statue of David was restored by using a white soft rubber eraser...(granted, he is made of marble, though!) still, I see that chamois cloth, silk, cotton tip buds and an eraser had begun to be used by one restorer, anyways.

http://onlineathens.com/stories/060703/fea_20030607018.shtml#.WE8BdvkrLIU

and for sure, silk or chamois or soft white rubber eraser will not damage your cards (and...neither will white bread!)

ETA I found also some lovely tips on a book restoration site. Soft cloth seems the way to go!

http://www.biblio.com/book-collecting/care-preservation/cleaning-books/