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 ...

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 ...

Create your own haven for your ideas and imagination. Barrovian Books bookbinding workshop guides you through every fold, stitch, and bind as you craft handmade booklets that are uniquely yours! Ryan ...

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 ...

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 ...

In this video, we rebind an old copy of the Lord of the Rings trilogy using traditional bookbinding techniques. The project ...