A seemingly innocent book from the 1800s — purchased off the internet by an antique collector — delivered a spooky mystery: a packet of human hair stashed within its pages. Christina Dyer, who ...

Skin-bound books may sound like weird artifacts that belong in Evil Dead movies or Dungeons and Dragons campaigns. But from the 1600s to 1800s, these suede-like tomes were less necromancy, more ...

Several weeks ago, I went with a group of fiber artists to see "The Hook and the Book: the Emergence of Crochet and Knitting in American Popular Culture, 1840-1876," on exhibit at the Library ...