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 ...

AMHERST - Regina P. St. John had recently returned to Amherst after teaching in Alaskan village schools. While she was pursuing recertification to teach in Massachusetts, she found a class in marbling ...

Erin Billing, of Topeka, works to run a needle through some sheets of paper while making a book during a bookbinding workshop Saturday at KU’s Watson Library. Participants learned four structures of ...

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 ...

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 ...

Luqman Azhar is a rare breed in the Malaysian old trades scene – a young man with a knack for breathing new life into antiquarian books. The 36-year-old avid reader and book collector turned his ...

Gustav Roedde arrived in Vancouver in 1888 and quickly established himself as Vancouver’s top bookbinder. He was so successful he was able to build a lovely home with a turret at 1415 Barclay St. in ...