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Marianna Holzer demonstrates the bookbinding process with her father’s old tools. Photo by Ian Kreinsen/The Citizen This story by Ian Kreinsen was first published in The Citizen on May 1. Marianna ...

From left: Father and son Ron and Skip Bowman own and operate Beck & Orr Book Binding, which has been in business since 1888. The old-fashioned business on the Hilltop specializes in the repair and ...

The Bookies are a passionate group of women dedicated to the art of hand bookbinding. Meeting monthly in each other's homes, Cheryl Mahowald, Mary Hagerty Sabo, Marilyn L. Schweitzer, Barbara Erickson ...

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 ...

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 ...

At his studio in Beijing, artist Zhang Xiaodong layers hundreds of sheets of thin paper on top of one another until they form a complete and impeccable image. When the chapters of his elaborate books ...

Walking into Beck & Orr Book Binding is almost like stepping into a time machine. Vintage wrought-iron machines take up residence along the perimeter. Photographs from the shop's early days and ...