Aniko Koleshnikova is an artist from Latvia. She can create amazing sculptures using polymer clay, which she shapes and colors into vibrant and enchanting depictions of animals, both real and fantastic. Koleshnikova ofte...

A few months ago, we showed you a dos-à-dos book--one with a hard back that forms the front of another book. This rare book owned by the National Library of Sweden is even more complex. Erik Kwakkel, a medieval bo...

(Photo: Antiqbook)Erik Kwakkel, a medieval book historian, calls this binding technique "dos-à-dos"--meaning "back to back." He writes that it is:[...] a type almost exclusively produced in the 16th and 17th centu...

British artist Philip Smith is an accomplished bookbinder. Pictured above is his vision of Tolkein's The Lord of the Rings: Book-box made from binders board, balsawood and with brass-reinforced epoxy-putty modelling....

The Royal National Library of The Netherlands has a collection of over a thousand hand-bound books dating back as far as 800 years. A portion of those books have been converted to digital images, and BibliOdyssey has p...