Participants at the 2023 GRASAC Gathering, Ojibwe Cultural Foundation M’Chigeeng First Nation, Manitoulin Island, Ontario

Parchment collagen fibrils in the Bozec lab (University of Toronto). Photo: Jessica Lockhart

Paper painting depicting seated Buddha triad with standing Bodhisattvas and donor, with hanging tabs added; mounting holes in upper and lower margins. Guiyijun period (848/851–1030/1036), tenth century. From Mogao Cave 17, Dunhuang. Paris,…

Detail of a sewn book - an 18th-c. medical compendium (sman yig gces bsdus). Toronto, Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, Tibetan MSS 00029.

A view under optical microscope revealing inclusions in the paper fibres of one of Cao Yuanzhong’s Avalokiteśvara woodblock prints (Toronto, Royal Ontario Museum 927.24). Photo: Jessica Lockhart

Noam Sienna (center) examining handwritten Hebrew marginalia at the Fisher Summer Seminar on Jewish Books.

Hidden Stories postdoc Noam Sienna (right) examining marginalia in a 16th-c. printed Hebrew book with co-director of the Footprints project, Marjorie Lehman of the Jewish Theological Seminary.