The Hill

Harvard removes human skin binding from 19th century book

The Harvard Library announced Wednesday it removed a human skin binding from a 19th century book that has been in the building for decades. “Des Destinées de l’Ame,” a book written in the 1880s by ...
Gizmodo

Binding a Book Seems Like a Really Good Way to Relieve Stress

Fine. Book binding would only be a great stress reliever if you were as good at book binding as Armando Costa and Florindo Simões are but then if you were, you’d be a professional book binder and it ...
USA Today

Harvard removes human skin used as binding for 1880s book, apologizes

Harvard Library announced that it has removed human skin that was used to bind a book from the 1880s. The copy of Arsène Houssaye’s "Des destinées de l’âme" was found in the Houghton Library and has ...
New Times Broward-Palm Beach

Stitch a Book, Bind a Memory

Although e-readers are convenient and you can download entire libraries to your tablet or smartphone, true bibliophiles can expound at length on the textile wonders of holding a real book in one’s ...
The Hour

Binding a book of ‘reciepts’ workshop for kids

WILTON — Clay tablets, papyrus rolls, and illuminated manuscripts eventually gave way to the printing press for producing books. Yet through the years, not that much has changed in the basics of how ...