For a long time, the exact material that was used to make these manuscript covers, called chemises, has remained unclear. Now, scientists subjected over a dozen of these book covers to diverse ...

They had been looking into the material used to make the books' covers. MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: In the Middle Ages, animal skins were the material of choice, but these covers were made from something ...

Editor and writer Mark Sinclair picks his favourite book cover designs of this year, plus opens with a few reflections on industry trends that have emerged in 2022 Last year I began CR’s round-up of ...

Let’s get started on turning those plain covers into eye-catching decor pieces. If the fabric is thin and lighter in color, and/or the books are darker, you’ll need to paint the books.

Mark Sinclair, Senior Editor at Unit Editions, takes us through the year in book covers, spotting trends for 2019 plus highlighting his picks for the ten best covers of the year It’s more or less a ...

The Clairvaux Abbey in Champagne, France, holds nearly 1,500 medieval books written by scribes of the Cistercian Catholic religious order. For a long time, the exact material that was used to make ...