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 ...

Whether it’s a Bible from the 1400s or a children’s book from the 1950s, Gail Lindley has seen it — and probably has restored it at Denver Bookbinding Company. Lindley, a third-generation bookbinder ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

It has been 55 years since John McCann bound his first book, and he’s been printing, trimming, rounding, sewing and backing with many of the same methods he learned in the 1960s. “It’s about a 26-step ...

The Robert L. Cattoi Book Technologies Lab opened late last year on the sixth floor of Lindquist Hall at Wichita State University. It features a collection of bookbinding and printing tools.

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 ...