The craft of bookbinding dates back hundreds of years, when scribes hand-wrote with ink and quill onto parchment. Craftspeople collected those pages between covers of stiffened leather or wood panels covered in bookcloth. Advances in the 19th and 20th centuries took bookbinding from a craft to an industry. Still, authors and hobbyists in recent years have revived it as an art form.
Whether you're looking to self-publish and bind your own books or pursuing bookbinding as a pastime, you’ll find bookbinding tool sets, kits, and how-to guides on Etsy to get you started.