Harvard University announced Wednesday that it removed the human skin binding from a gruesome book in its library. The book, called Des destinées de l’âme, was published in the 1880s by French author ...

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 ...

Back in the day, hardcover book binding was truly a craft. One had to be a certified book binder to even work in a hardcover bindery. My friend, Professor Emeritus Werner Rebsamen (formerly) of RIT, ...

The decision to find a “respectful final disposition” for human remains used for a 19th-century book comes amid growing scrutiny of their presence in museum collections. By Jennifer Schuessler and ...

In short: Harvard University has removed the controversial binding from a book from its library. Harvard released a report in 2022 that identified more than 20,000 human remains in its various ...

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 ...

For those in the audience who aren’t well versed in wrangling dead trees, a large press with a lot of clamping pressure can be used for binding books or printing. It can even be used to squeeze the ...