#tove jansson

[thewondersofmoominvalley]

Currently reading Comet in Moominland and then found this! I am obsessed 😭

[zhalfirin]

Die Mumins - Tove Jansson (The Moomins)

(Keep reading for full cover pictures, close ups of the endbands with a peek of the endpapers and links to the individual book posts)

Round up of my re-binding project of the Moomins books. I really enjoyed making them, but I'm also happy the project is complete now.

Back and front covers of the each of the books.

While I used some of the designs chosen for the book edition I had bought, I altered pretty much each of them to fit the size needed and/or also have an image on the back cover instead of the solid colour and a summary the published edition had.

The titles are printed with a metal cliché that I had custom made for that another binding and chose to use, instead of going for the full titles of the books. To indicate the volume I opted for dots above the title.

Endbands

I tried to also use the endbands to tie the different books together and picked one thread to be the leather colour or previous book and the others to fit the cover. I'm mostly happy how they came out. Only in the 3. book (where the colour shifts from violet to yellow-orange) the bead looks a bit irregular. Bead on the edge is simply not the endband style meant to be worked in such a pattern. I still like how it came out.

See the individual volumes here 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9

This is the metal cliché btw

[threeofsswords]

The Invisible Child

Ninny was treated so poorly by her former caretaker for so long that she became invisible. As she lives with the loving Moomins she slowly becomes visible again.

[mouldysketches]

went to library to read 'Moomin and Family Life' & there was so many funny?? concerning??? panels XD

[vargdottern]

can we talk about how snufkin is in the background of keep me warm PLEASE

[a-random-british-top-hat]

The canon size of moomin and the gang is like two feet, these two are not much taller or taller at all than them, these two are not human, Ninny and Alicia are also trolls???? WHAT ARE THEY???? Love em though BUT WHAT ARE THEY????

[sweet-honey-blue]

here are my favorite moomin comic panels because why not

[holespoles]

Moomin Winter Snow - Tove Jansson

[hannahlockillustration]

Little My causing chaos.

[mostly-funnytwittertweets]

[dinoknitting]

Baking vlog 👍

(All jokes aside, I knit these bastards by hand! Etsy link)

[vintagesapphics]

Tove Jansson (right), creator of Moomin, and her life partner Tuulikki Pietilä (left), an accomplished Finnish artist

[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

[no-tengo-ojos]

[amatesura]

Moomin dolls 1950-1969

[vargdottern]

me after searching through the entire internet and finding like two too-ticky related things