Peruse enough bookstores – or just stroll past their window displays – and you’ll certainly have encountered the design trends adorning our best (and bestselling) literature. Illustrations abound: ...

Today, book binding covers a wide range of techniques, from simple pamphlet-stitch notebooks to elaborate decorative bindings and intricate covers that people can spend weeks working on.

The cover isn’t made from fabric or paper ... More specifically, the DNA still contained in the book binding allowed researchers to narrow their search to harbor and harp seal populations ...

The material on the covers of books from a French abbey was too hairy to have come from calves or other local mammals. Researchers identified its more distant origin. By Jack Tamisiea Medieval ...

Book Arts and Papermaking offers both traditional and explorative ... and using stencils and vails to create paper samples to take home. Secret Belgian binding has hard-covers with sewing visible over ...

The cover isn’t made from fabric ... genetic analysis on another nine books, according to the study. “Having identified this specific type of binding, characterized by a furry skin chemise ...