I don't think this is a traditional talent: I do leather bookbinding. I learned from the bookbinders at Colonial Williamsburg and from various articles in "The Bonefolder" journal. It's a fantastic thing...conceiving a design, sewing paper, embossing leather, gluing boards. It is really a high for me! Bookbinding is an intimate relationship with the words of an author; it is giving physical form to abstract ideas. I have bound facsimiles of medieval manuscripts, works of Homer (in Greek), and books of poetry. I've created an album for a rare stamp collection, custom logs for ocean voyages (mine!), and personalized journals.