TOKYO – An increasing number of people are breathing new life into old and damaged books, either by calling on professional repairers or undertaking the task themselves. Some enthusiasts even design ...

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 ...

The Bookies are a passionate group of women dedicated to the art of hand bookbinding. Meeting monthly in each other's homes, Cheryl Mahowald, Mary Hagerty Sabo, Marilyn L. Schweitzer, Barbara Erickson ...

The tradition of hand bookbinding dates back thousands of years, to when Romans first began replacing scrolls with folded pages bound beneath a cover. While much about bookmaking has changed, there is ...