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My first tête-bêche binding, my first octavo, and my first time working with leather. This is a combination of two Star Wars fics I've adored for years, and which I nearly always read as a pair, so this combo seemed really natural. The stories are 'Wonderterror' by Peradi and 'Luke Skywalker. 19. Full Human.' by Samvelg. They both explore the premise of the Skywalkers as Eldritch creatures as a result of Anakin's (lack of) parentage, and they are amazing. I made an effort to reach out to both these authors for permission but received no response; if either of them request that this post be taken down, I will of course do so. But as this is a personal book for my own collection that will not be sold or distributed, I felt that showing it off was fair.

Printed on legal paper, font is Uni Neue(body text), Gearus (titles, headers, cover text), and Typographer Caps (drop caps). Images are composited from standard star wars and kraken/cthulhu conography, which is duplicated on the covers (with nearly invisible black squiddies underlying the flashy star wars logos, love how subtle they came out). Typeset in Affinity. Covers in black fairly low grade cow leather with HTV, endpapers printed from an image found in rawpixel's public domain archive, and headbands sewn on. Specifically made the bookmark ribbon long enough to run through the book twice, to potentially mark places in both fics at once.

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Letter-quarto sized copy of Anderson's 'The Snow Queen' as a three-part-bradel, with hand deckled blue paper and an illustrated cover

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The tiniest of stitches!

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made this as a christmas birthday gift for my brother. it's a collection of speeches from presidents, in a legal quarto. I used red and blue Duo (nile? I think is the name) with eagle motifs and a satin register ribbon. I think this is my first completed anthology, which I liked typesetting more than I thought I would.

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I'm so lucky to have this book from the exchange! Thanks to ashmouthbooks for binding it and to mouseonamoose (Nnm) for writing it!

I participated in the @renegadepublishing bound book exchange again and this is the book I made for Mick at Silent Sun Press (who I don’t believe has a tumblr).

The fic is a Crowley-centric gen fic so I chose Crowley colours (his black jacket with the red collar) and on the inside I used Japanese chiyogami paper with a tartan pattern that reminded me strongly of Aziraphale - because Aziraphale is always at Crowley’s core. I used the same paper for the headbands. The case is a modified Bradel constructed like a hardcover case and I cased in like a hardback, i.e. the spine of the case is not fixed to the spine of the textblock.

The fic is Demonology and the Tri-Phasic Model of Trauma: An Integrative Approach by Nnm.

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Here is a paperback pamphlet-sewn oneshot I printed for binderary this year. I just needed a hard copy of this one because it's so fun—very tongue-in-cheek without going out of character. I had a lot of fun with the social media cover design. You can read the fic 'M is for Murder' by @rohkeutta on Ao3, here.

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experimenting with materials for a tiny book. Really happy with the toner-reactive foil for the images and title page!

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I have a logbook for all my bookbinding, full of info on the books and swatches of materials used.

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Working on just a little guy!

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I tried a contrast thread on this butterfly coptic journal.

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Making endpapers! Shown are green paste papers and some ink stamp papers as well.

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Wood Engraving Wednesday

Here are a few delightful wood engravings from a recent gift showing the various processes that go into binding a book. This little pamphlet is entitled A Short History of Bookbinding and a Glossary of Styles and Terms Used in Binding … .printed in London at the Chiswick Press for the bookbinder Joseph William Zaehnsdorf in 1895.These images were probably printed from metal plates that were made from the original wood engravings. The engravings are not attributed, as was the case for most commercial engravings.

Click or tap on the images to see the definitions for these activities as provided in the booklet’s glossary. 

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