#bookbinder

[wyrd-author]

Another copy of American Gods by @neil-gaiman . Originally in paperback, rebound as a hardcover book in hand dyed red sienna leather with gilded pages edges and gold vinyl decoration depicting Shadow Moon standing beneath the tree Yggdrasil.

#bookbinding #bookstagram #bookaholic #bookshelf #neil gaiman #american gods #neil gaiman books #bookbookbook #books and reading #books #bookbinder #bookworm #leather books

[mrsyoflam]

I saw this binding method on Susana Dominguez Martin’s Instagram page on Sunday and my mind was so blown that I had to figure it out and try it myself.

This is genius for thick books 🙌🏻

#bookbinding #reliure #reliure d’art #handmade #handbound #bookbinder

[sanktalinn]

The dance of death by Hans Holbein

Bound by me

#bookbinding #the dance of death #hans holbein #bookbinder #handcrafts #handbound #book #art book #history #art history

[unityrain24]

shoutout to everyone who does fanfic bookbinding. gotta be on of the coolest things ever

#also crochet doll makers for fandoms! i don't like crochet dolls but you've got to admit that's a sick fucking addition to fandoms #fanfom #fandoms #fanfic #fanfiction #bookbinding #fanfic bookbinding #fanfiction bookbinding #fandom bookbinding #bookbinder #honestly bookbinding in general is super cool #ao3 #archive of our own #wattpad #unityrain.txt

[towns-end-bindery]

The Little Prince

Showing a little of my gold foiling process, which is all done by hand 🖐️!

I use a memory keeper’s foil quill, which came with a roll of gold foil when I bought it. It’s a wonderfully affordable option for those who don’t have the budget for machines like cricut or silhouette, and HTV.

#le petit prince #the little prince #antoine de saint exupéry #bookbinding #rebinding #hand bound book #handmade #handbound book #diy book #book binder #bookbinder #renegade publishing #renegade bookbinding

[drangercore]

Love and Other Historical Accidents by @pacific-rimbaud​

Hermione Granger and Draco Malfoy never intended to blow up their life's work, but that's rather what they've gone and done. Now they're trapped 200 years in the past, with a broken Time Turner, a missing snuff box, a handful of overly-eligible daughters, and a House-elf in a cable knit cardigan. It will require the combined power of their keen intellects to get them home, if they'd stop arguing long enough to use them. As it turns out, history is just one damned accident after another.

Fandom: Harry Potter

Relationship: Hermione Granger x Draco Malfoy

Art by @gingerhuneybee​, @jjuuppiter​, @jaxxartbox​, & yours truly

My first fanbind! 

L&OHA is an impeccable story and is so very dear to me. This was the fic that made me go “I want that on my shelf!”, so here we are. 

keep reading for more binding info and to see my gushing on the fic.

QUICK SPECS

153,854 words | 571 pages | 5″ x 8.5″ 

Binding Method: 3 Piece In Boards Bradel  Body Font: Adobe Caslon Pro Decorative Font: IM Fell English

I am very proud of this book, having accomplished many firsts with it. My first book that I rounded and backed, sewed double-core endbands on, painted the edges, and used toner reactive foil and HTV on!

ON THE STORY

Sighs. What more can I say? It’s simply brilliant. A unique multifaceted story with incredible dynamics, clever foreshadowing, great character studies of Draco and Hermione, and such beloved original characters. It’s comedic and refreshing but it also takes on grief and goodbyes, and heartbreak. It’s fucking romantic and also So nuanced. I dislike stories that spoon-feed every little thing about the character, so the parlor tricks on this one? Ate every crumb of it. It was filled with implications and was misleading in the best sense. You’ve got to be an astute reader to catch some things the first round (which I definitely wasn’t). 

While it doesn’t entirely shy away from typical lovey-dovies, the regard for mundanity and the inconsequential, I just find more inherently romantic. The exploration on time travel and the vivid prose further underscores the depth of PR’s talent. She captures so eloquently, the mind of an extremely logical person in a very illogical experience. I saw myself in Hermione so many times. The story demands to be read again and revels upon doing so. Pacific Rimbaud is such an incredible writer *sobs* all her works are simply a masterpiece. 

That said, this beautiful story deserves to be turned into a physical book.

DESIGN PLAN (or lack thereof) 

This is my first fanfic project and my third book overall which I must say was quite a leap considering my very little binding experience. I think the demon small niggling part at the back of my head got the best of me and positively thought she could make a relatively fastidious book despite the lack of skill. BUT nothing can stop me when I am overly enthusiastic about something, thus began my 2 month research, soaking up every gobbet of binding info in reach. As far as my book binding journey goes, gathering supplies was the hardest part lol. Bookbinding is not a common hobby in the Philippines so it was tedious to to look for materials and/or to settle on alternatives.

I credit 70% of the 4 month stretch of this project to my indecision. The novelty and sheer excitement with a new hobby, I think, divested me to properly conceptualize heh. I redid my typeset 1 billion times because I kept switching softwares: Word→ Pages→ InDesign. I probably have 8 versions of the typeset that will never see the light of day. Anyway, I did finally get the stuff done. Here’s my little design dump:

Nothing symbolic about the design really. I just worked around elements I thought were appropriate with the regency era and time traveling aspect: vines/ flowers and the time turner. I tried to reflect PR’s elegant writing in the book so hopefully I did it some justice. I added my fave works for this fic too and even drew fanart myself, here are some of them:

BINDING

I watched DAS bookbinding religiously during my research phase and I knew then that I wanted to someday follow his in-boards 3-piece bradel tutorial, but it wasn’t supposed to be so early on in my binding journey. One look at this book however threw me off course. It was incredibly ambitious of me, so I guess I deserved all the stress I endured in the process. I was supposed to trim the edges in between glueing the spine and rounding/backing, but I only had my poorly sharpened Php145 wood chisel to finish the task. That and nursing the finger my chisel wounded took enough time for the glue to dry, so I was fiddling with a stiff textblock the entire time after. I learnt along the way that a blow dryer and bone folder will be your best friends (and plenty of patience). I’d also like to apologize to my neighbors if you heard any hammering at 1am 😳 

The covers were... finicky. For some reason, midway, I decided to make either covers differently, and all to the good because the one made following DAS’ tutorial ended up slightly warping. DAS’ was with two 1.25mm boards glued together, while my experimental one was with a single 2.5mm board of which I peeled layers off of to reduce its thickness in half as needed.  (see pictures below for reference)

A lot of how the book looks like now is either born out of impulse or a desperate remedy. The book in turn is very gold. Chapter headers were impulsively foiled with gold laser reactive foil (so much for illustrating the headers only to cover them up haha *eye twitches*). 

I accidentally stained the edges while smoothing with black sandpaper so I covered the mess with an admix of Sakura acrylic paint in black and Liquitex acrylic ink in iridescent gold (Paint order: 1 layer gold- 2 thin layers black- 3 layers gold).

 I am very proud of my sewn endbands as this was my very first attempt at doing a double-core. I used DMC cotton threads in cream (712) and gold (E3821). Below is a close-up because why not. (as you can see, I had some flaking on the paint, luckily this was on the bottom edge so I fixed the issue on the more visible sides.)

I don’t like the bookcloth selection where I’m from (if there’s anything at all) so I made my own with pastel blue eco-ramie cloth, flour paste, and 80gsm paper. I ordered my fabric online and the shade was too icing-like. It looked tacky so I bleached to lighten. The white cloth also came from the same fabric which I bleached till it paled to white.

Titling was one of my biggest worries because majority of binders I saw were using a cricut to cut HTV. I almost entertained the idea of cutting it manually or even painting or embroidery, but to my luck, I found a local shop that offers vinyl ! cutting !! service !!! I sent them my design and they cut and weeded the vinyl for me. I chose white for the title and metallic gold for the vine detail. I messed up applying the word “historical” though, but let’s pretend i did it on purpose for the vintage feel.

Four months of faffing later, I have this story in corporeal form! Overall, I’m overjoyed with the outcome and I’d like to thank PR for the opportunity to have such a wonderful story on my shelf (and free to be read by anyone!)

If you made it this far, thanks for reading! 

#love and other historical accidents #laoha #l&oha #pacificrimbaud #dhr #dhr fanfiction #fanbinding #bookbinding #dramione #my books #dramione fanart #fanfiction #fanfictionbookbinding #fanficbookbinding #fanficbinding #bookbinder #harry potter fanfiction #sting and snout bindery #buzzing books

[rd-eternity]

Next project aka one of the first Thiam fics I read and one of my favorites

#thiam #fanfiction #archive of our own #theo raeken #liam dunbar #bookbinding #bookbinder #fic recs

[othrstories]

studio bits

#artists on tumblr #handmade #dark academia #bookblr #bookish #bookbinding #books #handmade books #bookbinder #dark and moody #writing

[cupidofcrimeee]

Another of my earlier binds. 😍

Between Us Flows the Nile - thebrightcity

The mummy meets Dramione.

This was and amazing story. 🖤 since this, multiple others have used my typeset for this one which makes me feel so good about my work.

As always, this story is free to read on AO3!

#books #books & libraries #bookbinding #handmade #spicy content #rebinding #fanfiction #book binding #binding fanfiction #dramione fanfiction #dramione #egyptian #draco lucius malfoy #draco x hermione #draco malfoy #hermione granger #Harry potter fanfiction #reading #bookbinder

[wyrd-author]

The Chronicles of Narnia omnibus containing all seven books in one! Originally a paperback, rebound into hardcover with hand dyed green goatskin leather and gold design depicting Aslan on the front cover. Now available in my shop at the link in my bio.

#narnia #chronicles of narnia #cs lewis #the lion the witch and the wardrobe #prince caspian #voyage of the dawn treader #bookbinding #bookbinder #leather books #bookstagram #bookaholic #books and reading #bookshelf

[mrsyoflam]

I’m still immensely in love with how this rebinding turned out! Good thing because I have to make another one, and this one will fly all the way to Australia! ✈️✈️✈️

#iwwv #if we were villains #m l rio #shakespeare #iwwv aesthetic #bookbinder #bookbinding #handbound #reliure d’art #reliure

[reztoxy]

Chimera of the chapel by Bleakmidwinter

I cannot possibly tell you in how many ways I’ve fucked this up but!!! I had so much fun bookbinding this

Like you can tell it’s my first time. It weighs a ton cuz I bought 0.25mm card stock for the case 🤡 ; the endpapers are too thin and I don’t have a guillotine to trim the edges so they look kind of untidy… and so on and so on..

I still love it and proud of it though! and will be able to read it soon☺️

#hannibal #fanfic #chimera of the chapel #bleakmidwinter #bookbinding #bookbinder #books #ao3 #hannigram #hannibal lecter #will graham #diy #diy projects

[shadowbindery]

This is what they call a dos e dos or Z-binding. Vol 1 and 2 of Bleach manga. Full goatskin leather with parchment (real not the kind you use in baking) on the mask piece. Hand painted edges and hand-marbled endpapers.

#new books #booksbooksbooks #comic books #manga #anime and manga #anime art #fanart #bookbinder #bookbinding #bespoke #handmade #bleach #titekube #ichigo kurosaki #books #bookish #nerd #geek girl #bookstagram #classic

[towns-end-bindery]

The Night Circus

By Erin Morgenstern

🎪

A rebind that I will be gifting to a friend as a Christmas present.

I read this book when I first started college, I think. The thing that stuck with me since reading it has always been the beauty and magic of the circus itself. Normally, I’d get lost or bored of extensive detail or descriptions about the setting, but the Circus of Dreams was an ✨aesthetic✨ that stirred my imagination. I was surprised at how much I loved it.

🎡

Regarding process:

So I recently rewatched the DAS video about paper labels, and creating a “well” for the label to sit in. And I thought to myself, what if I made the entire cover design the “label” and centered it on the cover?

The design was printed on vinyl adhesive paper, and it’s pasted right in the center of a large recess on the cover. Spine and back was hand foiled.

🎠

Well, it’s seems I’m on a roll. There will be many more rebinds to come before the end of the year, if I don’t lose momentum. I’m excited to see my projects take flight, but it’s also honestly quite daunting as well. 😮‍💨

As a side note…

When I first started this hobby, I was ambitious to achieve a level of quality comparable to many IG and tiktok bookbinders I’d been seeing out there. Many of them were binding fanfiction or doing rebinds of popular fiction, fantasies and romance.

And a LOT of them (or at least the popular accounts) were using special cutting machines like cricut, and heat transfer vinyl to create clean, professional looking designs. Shiny and metallic seems to be a highly sought after look, and admittedly it is attention grabbing for many casual viewers who stumble upon these videos. The same can also be said of the more traditional binders who make leather books and use special techniques for embossing and foiling.

While those beautiful machines and materials and tools like htv or leather-working aren’t NECESSARY for the hobby, it’s clear that any simple amateur bookbinders trying to build their accounts and show people their work really won’t be getting as much reach without making books that are as shiny and attention grabbing in the same ways.

And trying to achieve those looks of metallic vinyl, or beautifully embossed leather, felt pretty inaccessible to me. I’m sure many other amateur binders feel same the way.

That’s why I’m glad I can demonstrate how to achieve beautiful, high quality looking books in alternative ways. Feel free to reach out and ask me about my techniques! I’m no expert, but I’d be happy to help you find solutions and new methods.

12/15/2023

#bookbinding #handmade #erin morgenstern #the night circus #handbound book #book binding #arts and crafts #bookbinder #hand bound book #ficbinding #renegade bookbinding #renegade publishing

[saintbeckett]

Than chances of anything coming from Mars...

…are a million to one. But still they come.

The chances of me finishing binding this edition of War Of The Worlds, is about the same.

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#art #bookbinder #bookbinding #war #watercolor

[rd-eternity]

Finally finished binding patchwork quilts like a patchwork land by @eneiryu, aka 400 glorious pages of one of the first long Thiam fics I ever read.

#bookbinding project #bookbinder #finished project #parchwork quilts like a patchwork land #thiam #theo raeken #liam dunbar #fanfiction #archive of our own #fic recommendation #fic recs #teen wolf