#adventures in bookbinding

[purplephloxpress]

Did a tiny book bind along for Binderary this year and that was fun! (Shout out to @simply-sithel for hosting, I had a blast!)

So I decided to go even tinier with the leftover scraps and make earrings! (They were very fiddly, there was much swearing, but they are very cute and I love wearing them.) I think I used the flat plastic end of my glue brush more than the actual brush for applying glue to these...

Cover paper of all the tinies was marbled by me! The first tiny book was about 2" tall, and the earrings were all of 1/2".

#adventures in bookbinding #purplephloxpress #binderary2024 #bookbinding #renegade bindery

[queenlucythevaliant]

I finished my first bookmaking project!

#i think it turned out pretty nice! #will definitely use fabric over paper for the cover next time around #pontifications and creations #total number of typographical errors: 5 #adventures in bookbinding

[gnomewithalaptop]

Two weekends of work later, and I've finally finished my hardcover version of @flying-guinea-pig's So You Want To Be A Demonologist! I've never bound a book before, so this was definitely a new experience for me, but I'm pretty happy with how it turned out!

Edit: lmao I lied about being done. Here's the updated version.

#adventures in bookbinding #best hits tag #transcendence au #for real though this is one of my all-time favorite fics and I'm so happy I'll get to keep it on my bookshelf now! #plus!! I learned a new skill! which is always fun #though I think next time I'll try sewing the covers directly into the signatures instead of just gluing them #that way it'll be a little sturdier #but yeah I've got a shit ton of couch upholstery left over from making the binding so maybe I'll do the other fics in the series too #who knows

[fictionadventurer]

I found a copy of Wives and Daughters at a library book sale. Unfortunately, the cover was torn. Fortunately, this gave me an excuse to design and create my own cover. I found the image on a stock photo site (possibly Freepik) and used it for the front and back.

Then I designed the spine (using free Canva filigree).

After such a bold outside, I wanted a more subdued inside, so I just went with some stripes neutral scrapbook pages for endpapers (plus a gold ribbon bookmark, of course).

Overall, I'm pleased with the result, especially since it means I get to have my favorite novel (of the moment) on my shelf.

#books #adventures in bookbinding #wives and daughters #elizabeth gaskell

[zstraps]

just spent almost $300 on pretty much just paper oops

#adventures in bookbinding

[cryptidafter]

My very first bookbinding project is done! 📚 Of course there’s room for improvement but I’m very happy with how these turned out and I’m excited to work on more books in the future.

(also a big thanks to @ehyde for giving me a great resource for getting started.)

#bookbinding #adventures in bookbinding #tian ya ke #priest novels #faraway wanderers #tyk #cryptid's thoughts #yes I did completely remake the case for the second book yesterday lol #when I don’t like something I will absolutely scrap it and start over 😂 #trying to keep my goals reasonable until I have more space lol

[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

[altruistic-meme]

oh my fuck i think im just about ready for print. what the fuck. oh gods its happening.

#i need to finish adding the art but???? holy crap!!!!!! #finally!!!!!!!! #the art i wanted to add was simply Not Working so i had to change that #despite it being smth i had wanted to do since i first wanted to bind this fic #but it's ok #ultimately i know i COULD have figured it out but it was taking sooooo long with no promising results #so we'll go this route instead #<3<3 #now to do that and then #oh lord #do i print?? #i think i do #shh ac #adventures in bookbinding

[verbjectives]

Made myself a little sketchbook and my first attempt at coptic stitch binding. Didn't come out too shabby if I do say so myself

#verbs whines for ts #adventures in bookbinding

[boldlygotohelll]

Typesetting in MS Word is not the way I'm losing my mind

#ive been working on this for DAYS #ive learnt a lot since my first attemot at fanbidning but jesus christ i hate MS Word #might pirate inDesign to save my sanity #adventures in bookbinding #fanbinding #bookbinding #shut up bex #yoi #yuri on ice

[direwombat]

Finally put some decorative detail on the cover so here's the finished result of lowtide's jacob/femdep fic come a little closer which I highly recommend if you haven't read it yet!

#the fore edges are choppy and i didnt do anything with the spine #but its done enough to share :) #whining wombat #adventures in bookbinding

[purplephloxpress]

It's August 21, which means: Happy Fanfiction Writers Appreciation Day! If you are a writer of fanfic, please know just how appreciated you are!! Fandom would be such a different space without your creativity and labors of love. 💜

In celebration of this most glorious holiday, @renegadepublishing ran an event where we bind copies of fics to gift to their authors, and I had the joy of binding The Tranquility of Water for @noppoh! It's a truly fantastic post-canon story and I love the exploration into the effects of the main story on its characters after the fact. (This is a story I love so much that I wrote up a page and a half crash course on The Untamed so I can try to force my sibling into reading it as well. Take that as you will)

The walls of the Hanshi creep in on him and so Lan Xichen leaves. He leaves Cloud Recesses and his seclusion, stealing away in the night with no-one the wiser that he even left. His feet bring him to Lotus Pier where a surprisingly kind Jiang Cheng seems determined to help him heal.

With a title like "Tranquility of Water" and the story largely taking place at Lotus Pier, I may have been a little heavy handed with the lotus imagery throughout the book, but it felt very fitting! The lotus on the cover was a last minute addition, but one that turned out so lovely. Just, you know, to tie everything together lotus-wise. (Another one of my favorite design details in the typeset is that both title fonts from the chapter headers and title page get repeated within the text of the story as the main characters handwriting fonts!)

I started the physical binding process of my copy while at the Renegade Retreat in April (and decided the week before that I wanted to change my body font... can you say formatting speedrun?) and up until that point I hadn't actually figured out what the cover and endpages were going to look like. Special thanks to everyone who contributed pieces to this binding (and who moral-supported me along the way -- my copy holds so many fun memories now) because it LITERALLY would not look like this without you all. I really love the way the color transitions worked out, with a predominantly blue/green case, fading into green, into pink, into the title page, and then transitioning back out at the end of the book.

And these endbands!! Friends, that is SILK embroidery floss that a friend brought to the retreat especially so I could experience the decadence of silk endbands. I will never be the same. (They're so smooth... so shiny... so slippery to work with, but SO WORTH IT)

(Binding details under the cut)

The pieces that went into this bind:

Fandom: The Untamed/Mo Dao Zu Shi

Pairing: Jiang Cheng | Jiang Wanyin / Lan Huan | Lan Xichen

Bookcloth: Renegade Retreat Swap Table Special (I have no idea what it is, but it was just enough to make a copy for myself and the author and the color worked PERFECTLY!)

Cover paper: Opal Momi paper

Cover paper: Opal Momi paper

Endpapers: from the Craft Consortium Ink Drops - Dusk paper pack

Titling: foil quill

Endbands: leather cording core, silk embroidery floss for the bands

Body font: EB Garamond

Title fonts: Wintersoul and Bastian

Handwriting fonts: Bastian (Lan Xichen), Richardson Script (Lan Wangji), and Wintersoul (Jiang Cheng)

Tumblr insists on eating and doubling text in this section at its own whim, so if there's something missing that you're curious about, feel free to DM me an ask!

#ffwad #renegadelovesfic #fanfiction writers appreciation day #renegade bindery #ficbinding #fanbinding #purplephloxpress #adventures in bookbinding #the untamed #mdzs #xicheng #noppoh

[queenlucythevaliant]

My second proper bind: The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell.

#i am so incredibly satisfied with how this turned out #it makes me so happy #also I had a handful of extra pages in the last signature that were gonna be blank #so that's what the 'notes on theodicy' section is about #i added like eight pages worth of fave writing on the topic there at the end #the sparrow #pontifications and creations #adventures in bookbinding

[gnomewithalaptop]

Update on the So You Want To Be A Demonologist bookbinding project: I did some funky stuff with the front cover and now it looks sick as hell

And the side view:

I was so worried the glass pane was gonna slide around or fall out or something, but I figured out how to rig a bit of cardboard to act as a stabilizer underneath the vinyl covering and I think it looks halfway decent! Either way, it looks a lot less like a blank book now!

#best hits tag #the corners were also a good find -- I got a pack of 20-30 for about five bucks online #ignore the boxing glove in the background #adventures in bookbinding #transcendence au #definitely learned some stuff for the next project though -- for example: I gotta figure out a better way to fold the vinyl in the corners #it was waaaaayyy too thick and i had to take a pair of pliers to the corner covers to get them all to fit #also i just noticed i should've matched the direction of the scales in the glass cover to the direction in the background 😶 #ah well live and learn

[honeybadger-the-pop-witch]

Chronicles of Narnia Rebinding Pt 4 — Goodbye Planning

A dump of pictures on how different the cover art is becoming from the original plan. It literally has nothing to do with the books but now decided to be an art piece instead. Such is life I suppose. At least it’s been very meditative!

And it’s still not finished yet. I’m just letting it dry as I embark on a side quest of bookbinding to fix something my dog broke.

#meditation #book binding update #chronicles of narnia #random update #adventures in bookbinding #goodbye planning I guess #this feels like the amateur bookbinding equivalent to fuck it we ball #fuck it we ball #painting #acrylic #my art

[zstraps]

after hearing people talk about harvesting bookboard from books by conservative politicians, i found a david horowitz book in the little free library near my house, so i will happily be taking that out of circulation 😌

#adventures in bookbinding #ztalks