#cloth bookbinding

[haerdoepfu]

Finished my first attempt at cloth binding

I made some notebooks for my player, and since everyone knows that a book that starts with a map is bound to be a good book, I used a map of my D&D world for one of the endpapers

#this was definitely not a procrastination attempt #i also made my own book cloth with starch #and i have a video of most of the steps. i might post it on here some time #bookbinding #cloth bookbinding #fabric hard cover #notebook #dungeons and dragons #d&d #fantasy map #d&d map

[snek-panini]

For Binderary Book #2 we have a tiny (letter quarto) book! Here is It's Getting Hard, This Holding Back by @zehwulf (Hi, I asked to bind your fic back in January. Surprise, it's here!). This is for sure one of the cuddliest things I have ever read, and if you want to read something extremely soft and silly and asexual where everyone's favorite angel and demon fail to communicate till the end but it's funny instead of heartbreaking, then oh boy is this the fic for you. It remains a favorite for me and I read it when I'm sad.

I've fallen into the habit with my letter quarto binds of using materials that I already have on hand, and I did the same for this one. The cover paper is a pearly white scrapbook paper that I bought but didn't use in another project, and the spine is actually an off-cut of the platinum silk moire that I bought for binding Persuasion. I like it better on the spine than I did for the Persuasion endpapers; it was really well-behaved, didn't wrinkle or stain, and holds a hinge crease well. I don't know how well it's going to wear but I'd use it in this context again in a heartbeat. It's annoyingly hard to photograph though, as in the pearlescent paper and the metallic silver HTV. This book is so much prettier in person.

More photos under the cut!

Top view showing the ribbon bookmark and endbands. This isn't exactly a short fic at over 13k, but the typeset came out at less than a hundred pages so it was too short for handmade endbands. The blue is pretty though, and it matches the endpapers. Endpapers are scrapbook paper from Joann's (and I got some glue on them but don't look at that part). I bought them for an unspecified project because I thought they were pretty, but I accidentally grabbed an extra sheet. Fortunately you only need one sheet of paper to make endpapers at this size, so I still have a set to do another book with later on. And this bind, being all whites and silvers, desperately needed some color, so this was a good way to do it. The typeset is quite simple compared to a lot of the other ones I do, but I just felt it fit the story that way. I love an elaborate, flourish-y typeset when it fits the story, but this one's more about the core of things and the characters' interior feelings than the exterior obvious motifs. It was tricky to nail an aesthetic without some more overt imagery, but I think the simplicity fits it and I'm proud of this one.

#bookbinding #fanbinding #snek makes books #good omens #fic rec #i love this one actually #it's so cute #and the paper and cloth have nice textures #it's good for holding

[zhalfirin]

Fullclothbinding with marbled paper onlays and heat stamped decoration.

The design was loosely inspired by traditional chinese bindings and this binding by Dimitris Koutsipetsidis (please check out his work and blog and shop and everything!)

Materials used

case: 1,5 binders board and cardboard - (case construction) Iris bookcloth, paperbacked - (cover material) marbled paper by Renato Crepaldi - (paper onlays) heat activated foil - (cover decoration)

inner book: Munken polar, 100gsm - (text paper) Satogami paper - (second fly leaf, story divider) marbled paper by Renato Crepaldi, 80gsm - (endpapers) buttonhole silk - (endbands)

#bookbinding #full cloth binding #marbled paper #renato crepaldi #dimitris koutsipetsidis #renato crepaldi marbled paper #satogami paper #handsewn endbands

[tetchy-frog]

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Someone’s looking dapper! A second WIP post whilst you all wait :D

#the hobbit #thorin and company #thorin oakenshield #bagginshield #the hobbit au #bookbinder//songwriter au #modern!au #froje’s wips #i hope you’re happy razzy #oh boy are clothing folds fun

[bardnuts]

Casing in today. I'm not a bookbinder (e.g. this is my first time) but I wanted to preserve the book I wrote when I was 13 to make my teenage self happy.

'Twas a very silly tale of fantasy guys doing fantasy stuff in the woods.

The cover is chipboard and craft fabric and the lettering was done with one of those nifty gold foil pens.

#read my drivel boy #my art #bookbinding #the cloth reinforcing the spine is a sash from a pirate costume jkgsdsdf

[zhalfirin-binds]

Making paper backed cloth for bookbinding

I tried my hand recently on making my own book cloth, not because I can’t get any, but because there are so many fun patterns and colours around. To be honest, I expect bought book cloth to be superior for all the ways it’s finished to be more resilient towards dirt and and such, but that doesn’t say self made cloth is bad at all! There are different ways to achieve a paper backing, I went for the backing with paper and starch paste because a) if I mess up I can always do it over no harm done, no material lost b) I have my doubts about the durabilty of heat activated glues and their durability c) using paste is just so much cheaper

So first up was cooking starch paste. I don’t have a ratio for that. I put a spoon of starch into a pot, add some water to get rid of any lumps and let it soak a few minutes (usually just long enough to get some water boiling), then I slowly pour over the boiling water while stirring the starch and at some point it turns from white to translucent and lumpy and I stop when there’s a certain thickness. When the paste has cooled it press it through a mesh and add some more water as needed. (It’s usually rather thick at that point.)

(and yes, my mesh is a nylon sock. I don’t own a fancy horeshair sieve and this stores much easier) Then I prepared my cloth and the paper I was going to use for backing. The final sheets have the warp and the grain direction run parallel for better usage and less warping (at least that’s the theory, I have yet to use that selfmade cloth to find out). The limiting factor here was the width of the web of tissue paper I used. Because I also need the paper to be 2,5cm -5cm larger than the piece of fabric in order to get a smooth sheet of book cloth. Having around 5cm for an edge makes it far easier to get the paper on the cloth even if there is a little skew.

I moistened the pre-washed, but un-ironed fabric (I have some cotton and synthetic fabric, none of them are elastic) and smoothed it down to a flat surface that won’t be needed for a couple of hours (preferably over night). Glas would be best but I didn’t have that, so I picked two work benches for that. I used plenty of water, which was a good thing, I’d say because even when smoothed down, a bit more water made the synthetic fabric wrinkly again. 

I sprayed the later front side, turned the cloth around and sprayed the backside. Brushed the water in with a clean brush until the fabric clung smooth to the surface.

Then I spread the paste on the paper and put it on top of the backside of the fabric, brushed down the paper on top of the cloth with a clean and dry brush to get rid of any airbubbles. Starting in the middle of the fabric and brushing along the long side to the sides to push out the air. Then I gave it a brush down along the short side too. (the slightly brighter stretches of paper on the left are where the air is still caught under the paper, on the right is the paper all smoothed down)

Sometimes I had to lift the edfe of the paper carefully to let out some air or get rid of a too large wrinkle that was building up in the paper.

I weighed the cloth and paper down with blotting paper and blotting board as well as some wooden boards, but only to make them dry faster. In consideration of the table surface I cut only one corner loose after the coth had dried and loosened the rest by running a very flat bone folder all around the edges.

I had great success with the cotton fabric. only minimal bleed through of paste at the edges and a slight smudge in the middle of one sheet.

the synthetic fiber...   not so much. While others before that one had taken well to the paste, the one with those shades of blue and purple did not. it was a mess to smooth down and apparently not smooth enough. when I pried it loose it was all bubbly and a lot of fabric was not adhered to the paper backing.

I scrapped that one, I pulled the paper off, washed it out again and this time pressed it while drying, so it would be smooth before the next attempt.

Cleaning up the surface was easy by the way. It was all plastered with dried starch paste, but I simply sprayed it with water, let it sit for a bit and wiped it off. No scrubbing needed at all.

#bookbinding #paper backed cloth #book cloth #making starch paste #cotton cloth #synthetic fiber cloth #again this has gotten more lengthy than I anticipated...

[daisywords]

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

[sosnastudios]

and here’s the box they go in

i used duo cloth and i hot stamped the label on salmon parchment i made

#bookbinding #hand binding #box making #my folklore fish books! soon to be on exhibit! #idk if the box is going to be exhibited #i used this duo cloth cos it’s kinda fishy when you look at it. it’s so cool

[celestial-sphere-press]

a few of the process photos from working on Inside the River! as you can see from the many cutouts and pieces... it was a pain in the ass

#fanbinding #bookbinding #celestial sphere press #in progress review #ok ok trust me the cloth actually is green its just terrible to photograph

[conservethis]

Awesome! It’s my friend Melissa talking about the Poison Book project!

#conservation #preservation #library #bookbinding #arsenic #poison book #poisonous #libraries #old books #green #book cloth #don’t lick books #1800s #1850s #1840s #victorian

[simply-sithel]

I am not a precise crafter, which makes my ongoing interest in minis- where every mm counts- rather self defeating. Anyway, the hinge gap is always a struggle and once you glue that shit together it's really annoying to try to disassembling for correction. Latest solution to the error of my ways-- just tucking away that extra length.

I put a crease in the middle of my hinge gap and then fold one of the halves over on itself. Back with another strip of thin brown paper and done! Cover sits a lot nicer and I'm spared the agony of disassemble/reassemble.

#the cover paper/cloth bares the load/keeps it from slipping out to it's full length long term #note-- am a stickler for the spine bristol to be on the 'inside' of the brown paper and the covers to be on the 'outside' #I need 5mm and 3mm spacers for this stuff at some point to save me from my shitty measurements #as usual- only thought to take photos AT THE LAST MINUTE when I've already stuff glued and ready to go #bookbinding #wip

[haerdoepfu]

My latest book bind: Dune

Including hand drawn maps of Arrakis as endpapers

And illuminations at the begining of each chapters to mark the POV

And my favourite feature: the appearance of spice on the cover when you turn of the light

(Disclaimer for copy right reasons: it was done by getting an ebook and printing it out and is for personal use only)

#cloth bookbinding #bookbinding #dune #art #my art

[emillysstudio]

Book of Lilith. This a smaller and less detailed one I'm currently working on.

#booksbooksbooks #bookbinding #handmade #hand crafted #notebook #journal #seal of lilith #book cloth #leatherbound #leather journal #grimoire #spellbook #wiccan #witchcraft

[zhalfirin]

ANBU Legacy 2.2 - @anbu-legacy

With kind permission of the authors

Full cloth binding with title hot stamped on the spine.

case materials covers - grey board (2,4) spine stiffener - cardboard covering material - coated book cloth, black hot stamped title - heat reactive foil, silver

inner book text block paper - Munken polar, 100gsm endpapers - Chiyogami paper endbands - woven bookcloth and chord

Format: ~A6 (10,5cm x 14,8cm)

#bookbinding #fanbinding #anbu-legacy #naruto #masashi kishimoto #full cloth binding #3 volumes down 2 more to go #at the moment XD #I hope I have enough text dividers to keep them changing for the next books #if not I'll have to hunt some more down

[tetchy-frog]

A couple of fancy lads off to a fancy dinner!

I learned a lot while rendering this, and I still have lots to improve upon, but inspiration hit me like a train after I read the Valentine’s Day chapter from @lordoftherazzles Bookbinder//Songwriter AU! Thorin’s clothes are pretty understated, but Bilbo is dressed in a sort of modernized take on the first outfit he wears in An Unexpected Journey! That colour scheme simply gives me life, so I’ll use any excuse to draw it. I have no idea how other people imagined their fancy suits to look, but I’d love to hear how other people pictured them!

Also, if you don’t already know the fic I’m talking about, you simply, absolutely, positively MUST read Bookbinder//Songwriter here! I just got caught up, and I’m champing at the bit to see how it continues. If you want lots of sweet fluff, funny shenanigans, and peak found family dynamics, you ought to give it a read!

And once more, everyone must go and give their love to Razzy for creating this lovely-amazing-beautiful-gorgeous AU for all of us to witness :D

#the hobbit #thorin and company #fanart #thorin oakenshield #bagginshield #the hobbit au #thilbo #bilbo baggins #bookbinder//songwriter au #modern!au #fanfic #i hope you’re happy razzy #no really #this was very fun to draw and really made me flex my brain muscles figuring out their clothes #but also #muahahaha #>:D

[mizurda]

my ofmd book, titled “LIGHTHOUSES”

black leather bradel half-binding with pale blue and black sewn linen endbands and chiyogami sides in the closest pattern i could find to evoke The Robe, black with gray skull pattern pastedowns and endsheets with pale blue backing, and steely gray foil hot stamped title along the spine and tooling along the edges of the spine piece and corners

#ofmd #our flag means death #bookbinding #i special ordered this paper from hiromi cls noyhing else fit #then i go and find out someone made thst cloth #i think the paper sides are nice tho #i was proud of this #even though my joint spacing was a bit too small #handbinding #ofmd fanart