What Michael and Anne said:

My default glue for everything is real hot hide glue of various gram-strengths, but for paper, I cannot imagine anything better than proper paste, just as Michael Johnson and Anne Acker also recommend. Wheat paste is great, and you can buy high-pH (acid-free) book-binder’s wheat paste easily enough at art supply stores, but I confess that for paper I have had equally good luck simply microwaving a solution of good corn starch (as opposed to wheat starch) at low power, and short intervals (around 20 seconds) until it turns into paste. The wheat paste is also great. Paste with paper, unlike real glue, isn’t going to saturate it with liquid and make it go crazy. And it is plenty strong enough. How much stress is imposed on paper by, say, strings, to pull it loose???

Wheat paste (or the home-expedient corn starch paste) isn’t going to sog the paper with water, be dependent upon temperature and cooling, or discolor or wrinkle the paper. You have paste and you squish it out, and the paper sticks, and if the corners of the paper pull away, you have a long period of time to push them down nice and tight.

owen

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