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daisywords · 1 year ago

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the good news: finally started* my new bookbinding project (making a sketchbook for a birthday present for my brother—I think I'm going to do some variant of a sewn boards binding if I can find some kind of card with the right weight. thinking of doing some kind of loz design or at least a sword on the cover? also I found the scraps of gold leaf I scavenged from the trash this has so much potential)

the bad news: it's 1 am and the high of starting something is making me. not tired

*folded the signatures and that's all

#adventures in bookbinding #watched the new Jacob Geller video while I did it too which doesn't help those always make my brain run at full capacity #I saw a really cool looking book a few months ago that was just made with aluminum foil and textured underneath to look embossed kinda #and I've been wanting to try that #but then I found my black book cloth and I'm like ooh what if it was black except for a silver foil cutout #but now I could throw some gold on there too #I can be as experimental as I want bc if it looks tooo perfect it will be too intimidating for a sketchbook #so I'm fully expecting to mess up a little bit meaning I can be ambitious #the other option is to do a coptic binding but idk if I have enough of that kind of thread #luckily I had a ton of extra paper cut bc I miscalculated for the last book I did in the lab #I was just going to use paper from my big sketchpad but lucky me I didn't had to cut anything by hand this time around #also I am a genius and am currently pressing the signatures under a hefty stack of all of the yearbooks belonging to my other brother

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