Crafty bookbinding
... Ever since books took the form they have today, called a codex, people have bound them to give a protective outer covering over the paper or parchment pages. ... For the last hundred years or so most ordinary books have been bound by machine, because this is cheaper than binding by hand, but craft bookbinders still use the traditional methods developed centuries ago. (Brookfield, Book 46)
I learned how to use some of those traditional methods of bookbinding in my typography class a couple years ago. I'll have to see if I can dig up the instructions and my sample books to bring to class. Hmm, maybe that could be an element of my next presentation...