When all paper was handmade, you could have deckled edges on any side of the book, but as today’s deckled edges are more of a faux-finish, they adorn the right margin only.

Before the era of continuously produced paper, which began with the invention in the early 1800s of the so-called Fourdrinier machine, all paper had a deckle edge. That edge could be trimmed or not.

The trend of spayed edges is everywhere in publishing right now, particularly in the world of fantasy. Here's why that's not ...

The Deckle Edge Literary Festival – named for the uneven edges of paper formed by the deckle device in a papermaking machine – will be held Thursday, Feb. 18 through Sunday, Feb. 21 at various ...