
The use of book cloth, and Victorian machinery, revolutionised book production in the 19th century. From the 1860s onwards these...
Barry Clark is an experienced speaker and a retired Manchester Metropolitan University lecturer with a life-long interest in the Arts and Crafts movement. He is co-author, with Stephanie Boydell and Richard Fletcher, of the recently published The Northern Art Workers’ Guild and the Arts and Crafts movement in Manchester. Barry is a craft bookbinder, chair of the Society of Bookbinders’ North West and North Wales region, and tutors the Portico library’s bookbinding workshops.

The use of book cloth, and Victorian machinery, revolutionised book production in the 19th century. From the 1860s onwards these...