Tag: binding books with human skin
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Human Skin Books: The Grim Bindings of the 19th Century
Today on Threads that Bind, we delve into another example of the literal and metaphorical ties that connect us—sometimes in the most unsettling ways. Enter anthropodermic bibliopegy: the rare, macabre practice of binding books in human skin. What part of our psyche would drive us to skin the body of a fellow human being, tan…
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