Nov. 3, 2025 – When Missa Coffman and Marios Liolios were planning a class on Japanese stab binding, a form of book binding, they needed to cut very precise holes in dozens of book covers, plus the paper to go inside each book. To do so by hand would have been extremely time consuming – and it wouldn’t be as neat and precise as they needed it to be.
“This would have taken several days, if not a week,” Liolios said.
So they turned to the library’s Maker Spaces, where a laser cutter made the project easy to complete quickly. They were able to offer book binding kits to class attendees, as well as create book kits to sell at their small business, Tree of Liminality…