The husband-and-wife team George and Patricia Sargent are owners of Dragonfly Bindery Studio, a Woonsocket business that specializes in rebinding and restoring antiquarian books. They also repair maps and documents, produce limited-edition fine arts books, and build one-of-a-kind storage boxes that can boost the value of a book by a thousand dollars or more. “It never gets boring,” George Sargent says of his craft. “Every book we work with is unique, with its own problems, its own history.” / PBN PHOTO/BRIAN MCDONALD
The husband-and-wife team George and Patricia Sargent are owners of Dragonfly Bindery Studio, a Woonsocket business that specializes in rebinding and restoring antiquarian books. They also repair maps and documents, produce limited-edition fine arts books, and build one-of-a-kind storage boxes that can boost the value of a book by a thousand dollars or more. “It never gets boring,” George Sargent says of his craft. “Every book we work with is unique, with its own problems, its own history.”
