The latest addition to the Old Saginaw City Historic Sign Park in Old Town Saginaw is different from the signs surrounding it in more ways than one. The Dubac Book-Binding and Ruling sign is not ...

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (WKRC) - A university library has removed human flesh that was used to bind one of their older books after discovering its macabre history. In 2014, Harvard University's Houghton ...

The monks curated a vast manuscript and book collection at the Library of Clairvaux Abbey, a site in Champagne, France, founded in 1115. The group of 12th- and 13th-century works expanded to more than ...

James Twomey restores books and maps in ... He creates a one-of-a-kind book binding from scratch that can include a ... “That’s pretty darn old,” he said of the 18th-century books he’s ...

Unless you have a book binding machine, sewing is probably the next best option. Hit the link for the full instructions. Got any other crafty uses for old books?

Stick your nose deep into an old book and inhale deeply. It contains, librarians say, “hints of grass and vanilla,” among other smells. ... binding, glue, and ink as they break down over time.

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.

Telling an old book by its smell: Aroma hints at ways of preserving treasured documents. ScienceDaily . Retrieved June 3, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2009 / 11 / 091110112446.htm ...