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The book is done, the gift made, so now I can share a bit more detail about the inspiration. I think the design was subtle enough to not give away too much (although I felt like I wrote a lot about Hollows and that just had to be a dead give away.)
The cover was inspired by the captains haori. I went for an inverted version of it for completely practical reaons though. A white cover would look dirty and grey in no time, that’s also why I went for paper backed parchment instead of simple white paper. The parchment is much more dirt resistant.
The black looks just as dusty though, so that was that plan... now I built a clamshellbox to keep it clean
The chapter numbers had first been regular roman numbers until I realised there was no chapter higher than 10! I could go for the a division style there! The unfinished last fanfiction, Green Blade ís just 3 chapters in... and there was my Gotei 13, Since all three fics together are not excessively long I had some blank pages to spare and went for a lot of space in between, So every chapter comes with it’s respective division’s insignia.
Each of the stories has different chapter dividers featuring the jigokuchō, the hellbutterfly, a messenger of the shinigami (deathgods) in form of a black butterfly.
WIP Dry Heat/ Cold Rain/ Green Blade - altersuperego
casing in
I had just rounded the spine and glued the tube on the book spine against the spine of the cover, when I noticed the front edge has gotten a bit short delicate (sometimes that happens), but it made me worry that with the stretching of the paper I’d end up with just a tiny strip of front edge. So I cut back the paste down about a mm to prevent that.
When applying glue (or any moisture for that matter), paper stretches which can be a hassle if unaccounted for. With Chiyogami the stretch is not as bad as I feared, but it still made up half of what I cut back. Being shorter than necessary is ok in this case though. When the book is closed no one will notice the paste down is actually a bit smaller than the innerbook and when it’s open, well, then it makes for a good looking front edge. The only must here is, USE SOME MACULATION WHEN APLLYING GLUE.
I forgot that once and it would have been fine had both my endpapers had the same size... as it was I had a very neat strip of glue on the fly leaf...
I closed push down the hinge and close the cover only lightly just to lift it up a tiny bit again and check if the endpaper is straight or askew. Because the endpaper is only lightly attached to the cover it can be carefully corrected if necessary before I turn to the other endpaper.
When both are done I apply some short, but heavy pressure to get the paste down to stick firmly to the cover. Take it out of the press and check immediately for emerging glue on the paste down. This is a bit tricky, because the cover needs to be opened far enough to wipe away any excess glue, but the glue is still fresh enough that the paper can be pulled out of place if opened carelessly or too far, which would result in nasty wrinkles close to the inner hinge.
I prevent that by pushing down the cover so the inner hinge gets kind of clamped and can’t move too much while opening the book a bit.
It looks somewhat like this:
When the book is clean I put thin cardboards between paste down and fly leaf and align them with the cover board without blocking the hinge. The cardboard is to prevent the glue-moisture from wandering into the inner book and make everything wavy. Instead it can wander into the cardboard without doing any harm. Then I settle the book between more clean cardboard (I use finnboard, but any cardboard will do, it only has to absorb the moisture and protect the cover from scratches), weigh it down and let it dry.