This is what an artist book looks like. Yasmin Hidalgo's book in homage to Miguel Hernández. Books have become treasured objects, and in the case of artists’ books these become unique pieces where the ...

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 ...

TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. About the Archive This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online ...

SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA – OCTOBER 9: Judith Sims makes a book during a book binding class at San Francisco Center for the Book in San Francisco, Calif., on Saturday, Oct. 9, 2021. (Shae Hammond/Bay ...

Angie Sotiropoulos deftly twists the handle on her copy press. It squeaks into place, flattening the many sheets of paper that will soon make up a book. Then she moves across her home studio to her ...

Affiliated with ancient Egypt, bookbinding has been an important craft throughout history including in India from the time when religious texts were inscribed on palm leaves and bound in the form of ...