STILT® Reading Room Cradle

Free up space.

Our Reading Room Cradles offer the same features as our regular Cradles with the addition of greater head and tail support for heavy use in library reading rooms.

Our STILT® Reading Room Cradles come in 4 regular book sizes and you can choose from two opening angles. As with all of our STILT products, they fold flat and are easily tucked away when not in use.

Features of our Reading Room Cradles

Core Material

All of our Reading Room Cradles are made of conservation-grade core framing material, compliant with EN ISO 9706.

Angles

Our Reading Room Cradles come in 2 standard opening angles: 90º and 100º.

Sizes

Our Reading Room Cradles come in 4 standard sizes conforming to standard book sizes and ranging from Octavo to Elephant.

Collapsible

Away with those unwieldy pillows and foam wedges. All of our cradles fold flat when not in use.

Anti-slip surface

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All of our Reading Room Cradles come with an anti-slip surface to keep your book safely in place.

Hammock add-on

Our cradles can be used on their own or you can customize for friable bindings with the extra support of our STILT® Hammock.

Weight add-ons

All of our Reading Room Cradles come ready to attach our STILT® Weights.

What you need to know about our Reading Room Cradle Sizes

Our Reading Room Cradles are purposefully designed to offer extra support to the head and tail of your books. We recommend this extra support for heavy perusal of books such as in reading rooms and cataloguing work.

We recommend accessorizing with a STILT® Hammock and STILT® Weights. This way you will have all the tools at hand to keep your books safe in a reading room setting while allowing you do conduct your research with ease.

Reading Room Cradle Sizes

  • Octavo: Surface size: 13x18cm [approx. book size: 15x23cm (6 x 9”)]

  • Quarto: Surface size: 17x24cm [approx. book size: 24x30cm (9 1/2 x 12”)]

  • Folio: Surface size: 21x37cm [approx. book size: 30x46cm (12 x 18”)]

  • Elephant: Surface size: 26x43cm [approx. book size: 37x54cm (14 1/2” x 21 1/4”)]

Safe surfaces.

Our regular anti-slip surface is perfect for short term use in well ventilated conditions. It is compatible for short term contact with all secure organic book covering materials such as paper, bookcloth, leather and parchment.

Friable & fragile materials

For books with precious metal furniture, silk, embroidered surfaces and friable materials, we recommend the STILT® Hammock with a smooth museum foam surface. These Hammocks come in 6 corresponding book sizes and can be stored flat when not in use on the cradle.

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