Few items in the home are as ubiquitous, and as unexamined, as the bindings around our books. We line books up on a shelf, pile them on the nightstand, arrange them for display on coffee tables. But ...

Dominic Riley has spent decades designing and creating new covers for special volumes, and teaching others how to do it, too. Dominic Riley, at work in his studio in England, has been binding books ...

First comes a love of books. Great patience and skill is required to restore old books, but equally important is the belief that each one is a work of art. The women who run the Atelier Devauchelle in ...

After having deadly disappointment earlier this year when it was revealed two of the three books at Harvard University believed to be bound in human skin were both sheepskin, the third has been ...

Working right from home you can bind books in small quantities and repair antique books. Bookbinding equipment is very inexpensive to purchase and there are even construction plans available that will ...

SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA – OCTOBER 9: Judith Sims makes a book during a book binding class at San Francisco Center for the Book in San Francisco, Calif., on Saturday, Oct. 9, 2021. (Shae Hammond/Bay ...

George Matoulas wasn't a big reader as a child, but he recalls hanging out among the stacks of art books at Macmillan Publishers for hours in the school holidays when he accompanied his storeman dad ...