The vibrant pigments used in antique covers of books contained chromium, arsenic and lead, that can lead to health hazards ...

Restore the book block. What? The book block is the stack of pages, unbound. Make them nice and even 4. Replace the old cloth with a new one to strengthen the binding. Make sure it matches the spine, ...

new video loaded: Binding a Book, the Old-Fashioned Way On the Lower East Side of Manhattan, single volumes are trimmed and glued by hand as they have been in this tiny workshop for the last 50 ...

When covers begin curiously flaking off library books at University of Hawaii at Manoa, the preservation department is on the case of this white film.

A university library has removed human flesh that was used to bind one of their older books after discovering its macabre history.

Book binding from the 19th century on a book shelf in Edgar Shannon Library on the Grounds of the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia, on July 11. (Cal Cary/For the Washington Post) ...

Harvard Library said it pulled the human skin binding from its copy of "Des destinées de l’âme," written by Arsène Houssaye in the 1880s.

Denver Bookbinding office employee Stephanie Bradford said bookbinding requires 20 steps — including sewing pages together, affixing cloth binding, trimming book edges and stamping covers.

She has binding hand tools, too, which she uses on really old books for time period accuracy. "People love seeing this old stuff and love seeing it in use," she said.