#marauders bookbinding

[nocturnus33]

Kill your darlings by MesserMoon, a fantastic fic you could read at AO3 for free.

I love this story, and am happy to have it in my collection. That said, I can tell you that this binding was very eventful.

I think I will change my name to Not Perfct bindery. The two volumes of this book took me a long time, because I was buried in workload. It seems that every day I picked up this binding project, I made some mistake. The worst one was sewing the signatures too tightly so it was impossible to round the spine. Another mistake I made while cutting the fabric, as can be seen, the covers were in different proportions. This is my 60th binding; and I must learn that in excess of confidence lies the danger.

@sophsicle

[ifyoucandaniel]

and it’s done! this is a birthday present for the love of my life who’s birthday is friday! (everyone say happy birthday soph <3) they mean the world to me so i wanted to try to show that through making something to reflect that love. this project was a major labor of love and time and there are so many things wrong but i won’t sit here spending the next ten hours pointing them out, so i’ll just say i’m proud of how they came out all things considered! the end pages are by guine_evere on instagram who was lovely enough to let me use her stunning art to tie the whole project together<3 i’ll be posting details for each book in separate posts!

[starofthesea37]

POV: you taught yourself how to bind your favourite fanfics completely from scratch, and now you have a fancy collection!

Fics are:

“straight on ‘til morning” by merils (DC, Conner Kent centric, Mature)

“hot rod heart” by merils (DC, TimKon, Explicit)

“the courage of stars” by merils (DC, Conner Kent centric, Mature)

“androecia” by merils (DC, TimKon, Explicit)

“notes on divinity”by merils (DC, TimKon, Explicit)

“racing on the thunder” by merils (DC, Conner Kent & Lois Lane, Teen)

“Leap of Faith (Catch Me, If You Can) by erinwantstowrite (DC & Marvel, Spider-Man in Gotham, Teen)

“The Mystery of the Pears” by sonwar (Marauders, jegulus, Explicit)

“And so, Happy Christmas” by her_smile_forges_galaxies (Marauders, jegulus, Gen)

“Christmas Preceding the End of The World” by otrtbs (Marauders, jegulus, Teen)

“skeletons you hide (show me yours, i’ll show you mine)” by mraudersmoon (Marauders, jegulus, Teen)

“As If Through Water” by third_crow (Marauders, jegulus, Teen)

“Apocalypse” by jiangchxngs (Marauders, jegulily, Gen)

“Choices” by messermoon (Marauders, jegulus, Mature)

All on ao3! I highly recommend all of these, they’re all amazing!

Authors whose tumblr I know (let me know if there’s more I should add!): @mamawasatesttube @erinwantstowrite @otrtbs @sophsicle

All of these were done entirely by hand, for personal use only, and I make no profit from them. I made most of the typesets myself, and no I will not be sharing them unless I know you or you’re the author.

I learnt from a tutorial by hana_bob on TikTok if you’re interested :)

[dogearedbindery]

kill your darlings by messermoon ( @sophsicle )

“I’d fine you. In every universe.”

it’s a hockey romance they said. you’ll be fine they said 🥲

some stories stay with you, and this is one of them

artwork by misolace_

[p4perhug]

MY FIRST BIND ❤️

Something a little different...

I dived into bookbinding recently, and I love it!!

This is my first proper bind, and I'm so proud and happy with the outcome.

It's Crimson Rivers by Zeppazariel on Ao3 ❤️

I needed to get creative with the cover design because I have no cricut machine or this fancy foil to make a real cover and back design....

Well, things got messy, and my room looked like 'the arena' for some days, but it was worth it!!

Let me know what you think 💌

Follow me on Insta (if you want to): @p4perhug ❤️

[wisewitchbindery]

I bound nine works from the 2024 HP Recipe Rec Fest (@hprecipe-recfest) hosted by @tracingpatternswrites and @squintclover. All works were used with author permission. I designed the cover based on an obscure book shown in one scene of the Order of the Phoenix movie. More pictures below!

Endpapers for the book, designed by me.

The opening pages of the bind, including a table of contents.

Opening pages for Colin's Cookbook by @elisedonut

Opening pages for Devil in the Kitchen by @heartofspells

Opening pages for Have These On Me by @squintclover. AO3 account needed to read.

Opening pages and some details for Hermione's Pavlova by RegretfulPrince.

Opening pages How to Make the Most Perfect Pepperpot by @locomotiveodyssey.

Opening pages and some details for In the Wake of the War by @doingthechachaslide.

Opening pages and some details for The Most Important Part by Shadowmun, @mundrakan. AO3 account needed to read.

Opening pages for Rekindle by @tracingpatternswrites.

Opening pages for Savor the Moment by @nena-96.

I had a ton of fun making this bind and appreciate all the author's who permitted me to use their works!

This bind was made for me personal collection. I do not sell fic binds. Please never buy or sell fanfiction, it is illegal. Each story is linked under its respective picture(s).

[moshicrafts]

Aaaand that's a wrap on binding solmussa's Only The Brave for me. Third and final volume is done. I'm really happy with how the spines look on a bookshelf.

It was my first experience working with a cutting machine and a heat transfer foil and it wasn't as smooth sailing as I'd like to, but oh well, you can't do everything perfect at a first try.

Photos of the first two books are also published on my page btw. I'm so grateful to everyone who liked and complimented my little project. Learning and trying new things can be frustrating, so it was really nice to see people enjoying what I’m doing.

Next step: to make a pretty slipcase box to store the books. I've seen some videos on tiktok and it looked sooo good. Now I want one for myself.

[vellichorbindery]

Hi hello 👋🏻

I’ve finally completed my wrap covered set of All The Young Dudes 🙊

I actually need to make another set for my trade bc I’m not too happy about a few of the measurements and how this glossy paper worked for the wrap method (it was impossible to crease and scratched easily), but I adore the design. I went for a vinyl sleeve theme and hopefully it actually looks like that (does it does it??) 😂

THANK YOU a million times to @green-lights-33 for allowing me to use your stunning artwork for these covers. I’m absolutely floored by your talent.

[moonysbookshelves]

The Mayors of Simpleton by @fruityindividual

my favourite divorced dads wolfstar fic :”) finally finished the bind!! pulling all of the notes on the denim jacket to put on the back made me emo over them all over again lol time for a re-read i think

the lovely @p4perhug let me use their gorg art for the cover <3 thank you again!!

[amour-anguis]

“It’s already too late. Let me have this and help me survive the aftermath.”

Adored binding this copy of You Signed Up For This by my love Sol <33 @solmussa ilysm bestie

I think about this fic literally daily, if you haven’t read it, it’s a MUST. Truly so so beautiful :)

[badhairred]

✨️The Cadence of Part-time Poets Bind✨️

"...you're the whole bloody sky."✨️

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My finished bind of The Cadence of Part-time Poets! Lets be honest, this one was a STRUGGLE. I had so many setbacks but the end result is here and omg am I happy with how she turned out! @motswolo thank you for creating this masterpiece🫶🏻🫶🏻

And to everyone who've read this in less than a week... look what you did, you rockstar!❤️

[sits-bound]

Bound: All the Young Dudes by MsKingBean89

Well THIS took a long time.

I started typesetting it months ago. It's so long with a lot of chapters, and a lot of details. At first I split it into three volumes, but one would have been way longer than the others, so I resplit it into four, which I like, but just made it take that much longer.

Compared to the typesetting, binding it was a breeze. I purposely did not put any color on the inside so that I could just print it out on my laser printer. I put that thing through a workout! I had to stop and let it rest quite a bit. Poor buddy. Everything went smoothly with the folding and the punching and the sewing. I had fun making the end papers.

So lovely and clean and straight!

And then.

Then.

See, I was going to sand the edges instead of putting it through the guillotine. I even bought a power hand sander a few weeks ago. I was going to embrace the sawtooth, just sand the top and bottom a bit.

But for SOME reason I decided to trim the edges and, well, that was a big mistake.

Nothing ended up square. Everything shifted while cutting. The best I can say is that no text got cut off in the making of these binds.

As I was creating the cases, I realized that the boards (which I also cut with the guillotine) were not square either. It was all such a mess. But in the end, the text blocks fit within their cases, just not squarely. So looking at the outside of the set, you'd never know they're all cattywampus inside.

Moony says they look fine.

Oh, lovely!

Well, let's take a peek at the inside, shall we? I'm going to put them under a cut because it's a horror show.

Well, the endpapers are cute.

Oh that's not so bad!

OH GOD

Moony does not like this, though.

What's a "square"?

So, there you have it. Sigh.

Fonts: Chapters and titles: Krifon Body: Miller Display

This was supposed to be a gift for a friend, but I'm going to make a paperback version next and let her decide which one she wants.

[ifyoucandaniel]

Alright! So I finished hand binding Crimson Rivers by @mayzarbewithyou :) this was my first time bookbinding so excuse the mistakes I am far from great, but all in good time! This fic basically changed the trajectory of my life so I thought I’d give it the love it deserves! the spine is regulus standing looking up at the tree and he is purposely put on the last book because he finally learned how to climb and grow. I’m so emotional over the end of the fic so this is very emotional to me. I did the typeset myself and there are some cool details I’ll try to put in another post, but basically I added all of Zar’s end notes as footnotes to the specific scenes he talks about! All very fun and the dingbats match the theme for the books and the backs each have quotes the correspond. I split it into 5 just because it didn’t feel right to have the epilogues in the same book as the war. They were two completely different parts of the story so I separated them. Anyways I’ll make another post. This was a labor of love and I hope I did it Justice :)

[flowerhawk-highinthesky]

Blood Sugar Sex Moony by @emeryhall and @spikesteaseasalt

Made my fist dust jacket

And front and back of the book

After reading „mixtape“ I could not resist recreating the tape cover for my book cover

Each chapter has a little image related to the chapter

Details in the book (separator and sound effects)

And it’s the first bind with my (new) logo. I blame TSOA (and the one who made me read it ❤️) and Canva for his existence

[lifeonmarls]

Crimson Rivers typeset: books and their covers

fic by @mayzarbewithyou on ao3

art by @/likeafunerall on ig

typeset by me 😁

volume one is finished i'm still working on the other two since i want to make sure it's perfect i added everything in THIS drive doc 🫶🏼🫶🏼

This typeset is just for the first 25 chapters since i'm splitting up the fic in 3 books so 25 chapters for each volume !

feel free to use these at your own leisure , please send me a picture! i would love to see how they turn out 💘

some pictures to show how some of my favourite pages look like✨

[piscesmoonpress]

Art Heist, Baby! by otrtbs (@otrtbs)

When James Potter answers a mysterious ad in his local coffee shop, the last thing he expects is to be thrown into a world of white collar crime, but how can he resist when the mastermind behind the operation has dark hair and brooding eyes and promises wealth beyond James' wildest imagination? He would do anything for that boy named after a star, including stealing millions of dollars of fine art.

Pairing: Regulus Black/James Potter, Sirius Black/Remus Lupin, Marlene McKinnon/Dorcas Meadowes, Alice Longbottom/Frank Longbottom Fandom: Harry Potter

Disclaimer: otrtbs no longer allows binds of Art Heist, Baby!. This edition was first typeset and bound in May of 2023. Please do not use this post as a permission to bind Art Heist, Baby!.

Art Heist, Baby! was one of the very first jegulus fics I read, and eventually became my second-ever bind. The original binding for this fic was done over the course of a single weekend, which makes me cringe a little now—but I am still so proud of this typeset and the bind itself, despite its flaws.

Half-Letter | 219,117 words | 609 pages

Title and Drop Cap Font: Bodoni 72 Body: Adobe Garamond Pro Accent(s): Gill Sans, Futura Condensed

Typset by me in Word.

Designed by me in Illustrator.

Materials

Cover Bookcloth: Duo in Blue Jean HTV: Siser Brand in Gold Metal and Powder Blue Endbands: Mettler Silk Finish Thread Endpapers: Chiyogami Paper

Eventually, I found that the structure of my previous binding was less-than-ideal, and I decided to rebind my copy. Given that I couldn't change the typeset, I spent a lot of time deciding on a cover design, and eventually settled on using Ivan Aivazovsky's Ship on Stormy Seas (a painting synonymous with this fic) as inspiration.

The process of turning the boat from this painting into something that could be used with a single shade of HTV was difficult, but I eventually settled upon a design I was happy with after messing around in Illustrator for a couple weeks.

When I removed the cover from this bind, I also trimmed and painted the edges, sewed double-core french endbands (two-tone, to match the bookcloth), and reinforced the spine (though I couldn't do much for the pre-existing swell). Overall, I am thrilled with how it looks, and with how my original typeset fits with my more developed design style.

Thank you to Nat, for writing such a beautiful (and heart-wrenching) story. Art Heist, Baby! is free to read on ao3, here.