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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

SCNHREF copy Purchased with Adopt-a-Book funds. "This new book provides guidance on recognising and dating English bindings of the handpress period, from the middle of the fifteenth century to the ...

The Library Company notes that the bindings “appeared on American books only briefly — around 1850-55 — a time of increasingly elaborate book cover decoration.” The use of inlaid shell on books wasn’t ...

Think HGTV, but for books: A novel gets torn apart, its cover ripped away. Then, in mere minutes — with some glue, a utility knife, cardboard and cloth — it gets a spiffy new look. Inspired by process ...

Keep up with everything happening in The Commons by signing up for our Philanthropy Today newsletter and joining our Commons LinkedIn group. Marcy Mager hadn’t expected the visceral response to the ...

FRIDLEY, Minn. – Using century-old equipment to restore century-old books is an ancient craft, but one that's still very much alive. In this week's Finding Minnesota, John Lauritsen shows us how a ...

Miss French's study was accepted in 1939 as a master's essay in the book arts field at the School of Library Service, Columbia University; Mr. Rogers' study, accepted as a master's essay at the same ...

Walking into Beck & Orr Book Binding is almost like stepping into a time machine. Vintage wrought-iron machines take up residence along the perimeter. Photographs from the shop's early days and ...