#To rebinding books

[unashamedly-enthusiastic]

Maybe a new hobby would fix me

[perfectlynormalbooks]

House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewksi - hardcover rebind of my own softcover copy, because a book like this deserves a fancy hardcover edition.

Tried some fun new tricks with this one - I sewed on headbands to it, with a thin strip of House-colored blue in the centres, and an even thinner strip of red within that. Used wax paper transfer to press the polaroid photographs from the original spine onto the fore-edges. The black square on the front and back is an inset lined with black velvet. This is a very, very nice book to hold. Can't wait to settle down in my lovely house and reread it all over again wait why are the walls moving

[hydrogenandhelium]

I never fucking post on here I KNOW IM SORRY but

I started learning how to rebind books and I made this! (There’s also a link to my Etsy shop at the bottom if you want to buy it 😊)

I also make videos of the process if you are interested! (It’s the same video on the different sites)

TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8RvqRQC/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DAtaXC7vfAn/?igsh=MTVvenc1N2tlYzJiMw==

Youtube: https://youtube.com/shorts/0gcBssROP2w?si=aVU9Q0nz4VQJR5oe

And this set is available on Etsy! https://starlitbindery.etsy.com/listing/1804587073

[mythrilthread]

I rebound This Is How You Lose the Time War because I wanted MORE COLORS.

(And also maybe the idea of using that tweet by Bigolas Dickolas as a blurb tickled me greatly. Because that whole situation was a highlight of my month.)

❤️ Did the cover with the same birds but added plot relevant double exposure effect I’ve loved since my True Detective days.

💜 Used purple fabric for the spine, painted the edges in a fun gradient, sewn the endbands;

💙 and used lovely fluid art by Marek Okon for endpapers.

Now no one in my household stands a chance of avoiding exposure to this gorgeous story ❤️💜💙

[oooocleo]

every single time i want to buy a physical book im crying on my knees over all the meaningless review blurbs and printed-on 'stickers' w other random ass text on them on the FRONT covers aaarghhghh no this is not the first or last time i will complain abt this

[astrangertomykin]

Just finished my rebind of Andy Weir's Project Hail Mary.

This is definitely one of the case files used at Stratt's trial 🤭

[cupidofcrimeee]

Camp Folktale (summer of '86) - cairparavels

So I had this one bound and finished for ages, but it always felt incomplete. I still think it feels incomplete and too simple and I can't figure out what to add to it, so decided to post it.

But this is a favorite Steddie fic of mine.

Art: commissioned from @toktopus-art

Bookcloth: hollanders

Vinyl: htvront and vinyl frog green foil

Charm: Etsy

Typeset: me

[cellsshapedlikestars]

Finally finished my ASOIAF rebinds!

Well, I'm not completely done, I still need to finish up the bookmarks, but the charms for the ends are taking ten years to get here.

Now, I didn't make a separate post for book 5, so I'll include the transformation here:

Obviously for the back cover of that one, the House of Black and White door won the poll (or, it was winning when I deleted the post, because even making the poll made me realize that's the design I wanted)

If you followed my previous posts, you may have noticed that I did not use white leather for book 5 like I said I was going to, and that's because I got far enough into the process to put it next to the others, and...

It looked REALLY bad. I thought it might look good with black & white bookending the series, but uhhh nope. The other colors were so dark it just looked extremely out of place, so instead I went with gray leather, which ended up being darker than I thought so it didn't look stupid with the silver lettering like I feared. So now I might use the white to redo Fire & Blood, but with red lettering

Anyway, I've been prepping for this project for like months at this point, learning how to rebind, buying so many supplies... and I got them all done within a few weeks, and now I don't know what to do with myself. I have SO MANY MATERIALS left over. And I could do other series, LotR or HP maybe but I'm definitely not as passionate about those series. Ah well, I'm happy with these so that's all that matters.

[zhalfirin]

Herbst im Mumintal - Tove Jansson (Moominvalley in November)

Half leather binding

materials used:

inner book textblock - purchased book in signatures, (partially repaired with japanese tissue paper) endpapers - lokta, backed with Schirting (thin, seized fabric) endbands - buttonhole silk

case boards - grey board 1,5mm spine stiffener - cardboard covering material, spine - leather (vegetable tanned) covering material boards - laser printed publishing paper cover art - original by Tove Jansson (altered for this case) title - hot stamped with genuine gold foil

original case of the purchased book

[notgilderoylockhart]

A Bright Ray of Darkness by Ethan Hawke is definitely one of my favorite books this year and one of my all time favorite audiobooks.

It took me a while to decide on a design for the rebind though. I think I made 8 designs in total until I finally settled on this one. I wanted to incorporate the burnt match, as well as the smoke from the original cover but filling the empty space around that alone proved difficult.

To fill that empty space, I added the title and finally, as I was trying to figure out a design for the back cover and watching this production of Henry IV on YouTube, another idea came to me.

A central plot point is a production of Shakespeare’s Henry IV, so I designed a little playbill for the back. And to tie both the front and the back design together I put some of Hotspur’s (our protagonist’s role in the play) dialogue on some scrap book cloth with a hot foil quill and added a "burnt edge" in gold vinyl.

I’m totally in love with it, not just because I love shiny things.

[moonboundbooks]

Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo. - Rebound in 2023

I really need to get to working on Crooked Kingdom one day.

[ohmightydevviepuu]

valdemar, part iii: books that blooded me

i said six months, didn't i? 😅

this is the last of the paperbacks that get a flatback rebind. there's a consistent mistake i've been making, and i think i'm finally ready to face it: over-trimming the endpapers. it's stopping me from getting a really good fit in the spine. i'm also still not reliably getting a really crisp hinge, even with my brass-edged boards. alas.

STILL. aren't they pretty? i'm still obsessed with the iridescent stickers, and i'm loving the little pops of color (here provided by duo and by dubletta bookcloth, respectively) on the spines.

the next/final tranche gets SLIPCASES, wheeee.

adventure awaits.

[kettle-bird]

I totally forgot to post these, but another rebind I finished a while back- this one of Frankenstein! Definitely using glow in the dark vinyl again, this was so cool!!

[flowerhawk-highinthesky]

Rebind of the Song of Achilles as a gift

[perfectlynormalbooks]

Hardcover rebind of Holes by Louis Sachar! My paperback cover was starting to flake away, so I did my best to rescue it. The bookcloth is Eister Duo, and all of the decals are HTV. I only had enough confidence to put a single actual hole into the cover (right through the O!) although I briefly considered riddling the whole cover case with them - the idea was dismissed because of Structural Concerns. Maybe next time.

A brief attempt at speckling the edges was made (yellow, for yellow spotted lizards). It doesn't look very good - I blame my no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing great-great-grandfather for this, and all other imperfections.

[kingcael]

A Marvellous Light