Whether you’re binding a book yourself, or just covering one, it’s always wonderful to have something beautiful to write in. This little book has envelopes and inserts with little pockets between the ...

Miki Tsuzaki, who has worked at the atelier for 22 years, specializes in binding and gold embossing. Her movements must be extremely precise when she sews the pages together with waxed linen thread.

This process is known as trade binding or perfect binding. In library binding, however, books are sewn together, which creates a more durable bond than adhesive.

Harvard removes human skin used as binding for 1880s book, apologizes The copy of Arsène Houssaye’s "Des destinées de l’âme" was found in the Houghton Library and has been part of the ...

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 ...

For 90 years, a book about the soul after death was bound in human skin. Now, Harvard has removed the binding and apologized for its handling of the book.

Prestigious Harvard University said on Wednesday, March 27, that it had removed human skin from the binding of a book held for over 90 years at one of its libraries. A copy of the 19 th-century ...

The book arrived at Harvard in 1934, via the American diplomat John B. Stetson, an heir to the hat fortune. It had been bound by its first owner, Dr. Ludovic Bouland, a French doctor, who inserted ...