#diy bookbinding

[stealyoursweetrolls]

I'm an artist, and my friend who is obsessed with Skyrim (the reason why I even play the game) had a birthday this month. I was scrolling online to see if I could order something for them and found the cheap, made-to-print spiral notebook version of the Oghma Infinium and thought... I can do that, but better. So I did.

I took a few creative liberties and obviously it's not EXACT but my friend thinks it's cool and I think it's cool so. There it is.

progress pictures from Snapchat (please excuse the typos) below:

#skyrim #tesblr #the elder scrolls #elder scrolls #tes #oghma infinium #xarxes #hermaeus mora #herma mora #daedric #daedra #daedric prince #skyrim craft #craft #diy #book #book binding #diy bookbinding #bookbinding #skyrim diy

[lindstromm]

Simplified Bookbinding Tutorials

Usually in bookbinding, you format the text into signatures, print them, fold them, sew the signatures together before casing them into a book. Sewn signatures look like this:

I don't do well sewing signatures, so I found a way to publish books that doesn't involve sewing. In the Simplified Bookbinding method, you print the text front and back on loose sheets of paper and then glue the loose sheets together. A glued text block looks like this:

Gluing loose pages instead of sewing signatures changes/simplifies the formatting, creation of the textblock, and the headbands. You also don’t need the sewing supplies, so it’s cheaper and faster.

To see books I've made with this simplified process, click here, here and here.

I thought some of you on Tumblr might appreciate a "bookbinding for beginners" post. You can use this as an introduction to classic bookbinding, or just keep bookbinding with this simplified method. I’ve put out a series of tutorials on Simplified Bookbinding. Here’s the list and links all in one place.

General posts about the bookbinding process:

Simplified Bookbinding: How to Make a Cheap First Book.

Simplified Bookbinding: Buy Good Glue

Simplified Bookbinding: Cutting Tools

There are four steps to creating a book, with more specialized posts.

1. Format the text and print it.

Simplified Bookbinding: Font and Text Ornaments

2. Create the text block.

Simplified Bookbinding: Headbands

3. Create the case

Simplified Bookbinding: Cardstock Covers

Simplified Bookbinding: Spine Text

4. Attach the case to the text block

Details about this step are in the posts on creating the entire book, and the one about glue.

#simplified bookbinding #fanbinding #ficbinding #bookbinding for beginners #bookbinding tutorial #diy bookbinding

[selfmedblves]

Pages 38-41 of Making Stuff and Doing Things by Kyle Bravo

Book Binding for Beginners by Merrydeath Stern

#punk #crust punk #diy punk #diy or die #diy #punk zine #zine #zines #diy guide #diy guides #msadt #diy bookbinding #diy book #diy inspiration

[simplybybea]

Fanbinding Battle Lines!

I finished the fanbinding for @septemberrie 's Silrah bodyguard AU, Battle Lines, earlier this week and I forgot (of course) to take photos of the process but here is the end result! This has been a learning experience and there are definitely things I want to change for the next binding (the level of detail in the foil for example! Took me d a y s) and I am excited to try again but I am incredibly proud of this first ever full pdf to hardcover book bind!

Disclaimer that the wings and crossed swords were from a Google png search so I did not design but as this is for fully personal use its OK. Unexpectedly it was the swords that caused more problems at foil weeding! Wild. And there are paired birds on the endpapers!

This was so much fun, and I am now going to be a menace turning all my favourite longfics into glitzy hardback books!

#Battle lines #Silrah AU #Silrah #Farah x Saul #Fanbinding #Beginner bookbinding #Clothbound classic style #Bookbinding #diy bookbinding #The winx saga #Happy dance it's done #I was going to t

[nocturnus33]

I loved Here's looking at you kid when I read it, especially how the inner life of each character is developed. So when I finished reading it, I knew I had to bind it sooner or later. Seeing the fantastic job @chaoticbindery did encourage me even more. What I love: Not to mention the beautiful typesetting of @chaoticbindery I'm also happy with the monogram that includes Blaise and George's names.

What I learned: It's the first time I've done a larger, more complex design on HTV.

What I need to improve: I have to be careful not to overheat the cover: I noticed the letter H was crooked, that happened because when it was ready, I realized that not everything had transferred well, and I applied heat again, but I wasn't very careful.

Still, I like this one.

@sophsicle

#renegade bindery #fan art #MesserMóon #fanbinding #ficbinding #ficbook #bookbinding #fic binding #fic binders #fanbind #my fanbinding #fanboundbooks #fanbook #fan binders #fan binding #my stuff #diy bookbinding #my progress #sophsicle

[underthestumppublications]

RATE MY SETUP

Printer paper folded and trimmed for 13 signatures, sewn together with thread from a sewing project 5 years ago, cheesecloth from a disastrous attempt at making dandelion infused oil, ribbon from the stash that I bought because it was cute, chip clips 'borrowed' from the fridge.

#handmade #books #diy bookbinding #bookbinding #bookblr #stash busting #first attempt at a journal from scratch #journal

[tiesthatbindery]

The @renegadepublishing Bound Book Exchange is complete and the books I made have been received.

I was very lucky in that my recipient, @rhipidurafan, had multiple amazing picks for fics she'd like to receive and two spoke to me immediately. I got even more lucky when both @neverwaswise and @shinyopals gave me permission to bind their fics for this exchange.

I got less lucky when my Cameo 4 decided it wasn't going to foil my titles and tentacles for me, but I think it came out Not Too Bad doing it by hand.

Ship In A Bottle by Neverwaswise (rated T) is a modern AU for OFMD and it starts with Stede moving into a lighthouse and doing some interior decorating. This decorating scheme influenced my choices for the case where I tried to match the paper to the wallpaper he was installing and the bookcloth and endbands to the orange brick of the interior of the lighthouse. I also knew early on that I wanted to reference the kraken tentacles on the case or end papers, but I couldn't find anything that felt right, so drawing my own tentacles it was. I'm so happy that the two that ended up making a kind of heart shape wrapped around to be on the front of the book.

The Magnus Institute vs the 21st Century by Shinyopals (rated T) is a series of four epistolary fics (well, 3 epistolary fics and one scriptbook style fic). I discovered very early that there is a very disappointing lack of good eye imagery for decorative paper and cloth options. I decided to lean heavily into the fact that the Magnus Institute may be dragged into the 21st century against their wills, but that doesn't mean they won't still keep things as old school as possible. For the emails and IMs, I tried to replicate the fonts that would be used in Outlook and on the cellphones, and then I matched fonts for the scriptbook as well.

But for the titles, I picked out a nice crunchy Punk Typewriter font. My Cameo 4 tried its best to destroy that on the spine, twice getting caught in one space and ruining it. And foiling by hand made it a little extra crunchy but I kind of enjoy the effect that happened. Yes, technically it's not perfect. But by this point I'd already decided on making my own cover paper art as a manila folder with post notes on it, so I actually enjoy the way that the imperfections in the spine titling make it look even more like this book is the result of the archival assistants printing off all the emails and IMs to file hard copies and then needing to hand adjust when the typewriter didn't quite label perfectly.

I also had a lot of fun coming up with some of the things to have on the post notes on the back cover.

And what would a TMA series be without some tea? I made the little tea bookmark and realized I didn't have any particularly tea colored size 10 crochet thread, so I did the reasonable thing and used gold with metallic and it's fancy tea. That's my story.

Link to cup of tea bookmark pattern Link to corner bookmark pattern Fonts: Punk Typewriter Seaside Wave Initials With Curls

#my bookbinding #diy bookbinding #fandom binding #by denois #OFMD #TMA

[borninwinter81]

Another literary recommendation for Good Omens fans!

My Angel friend (see my pinned cosplay photos) made me aware of this one, it’s called The Revolt of the Angels by Anatole France, written in 1914.  I had never heard of this book, and as I have not read it yet I can’t go in-depth like I did on my previous literature post concerning William Blake, but the plot it sounds like it would be extremely interesting to GO fans, and likely shares some common ground with its themes. It is on the Catholic Church's Index of Forbidden Books.

In brief, it concerns the fallen rebel angels amassing an army to retake Heaven, but there is a great deal more to it than that. I can’t really go into details without spoilering for everyone (I’ve already spoilered for myself, as I generally do with these things).

It’s a public domain work so is free to read via Project Gutenberg (link here).

This post is also an opportunity for me to big up my friend – as she is a person of varied and specialist interests, she decided that rather than buying a copy she wanted to print and bind her own.

Here are the results of several hours worth of work following downloading the text.  The title page with the Lucifer sigil inside the apple, fonts, page numbering, formatting etc. are all her own.  I think this looks unbelievably professional considering it was done on a home printer with free software. Next comes sewing it together!

#good omens #good omens 2 #go2 #good omens book #good omens 3 #the revolt of the angels #neil gaiman #anatole france #literature #intertextuality #book binding #terry pratchett #diy bookbinding #book omens #books and reading #Good omens book club

[troythecatfish]

#elden ring #elden ring art #elden ring fanart #elden posting #elden ring posting #soulsborne #soulsborne fanart #soulsborne art #diy #diy craft #diy projects #diy bookbinding #diy book #art video #custom made #books #art book #artbook #book creation #bookworm #book video #booklr #books and reading #gaming videos #gaming fanart #video game #video game fanart #youtube #youtube content #youtube recommendations

[haerdoepfu]

Making a hardcover cloth bound book

As promised, here's the video of how i made my last books

I forgot to film some steps, including starching the actual fabric and how exactly i made the paste and acryllic base mix, but i basically followed youtube videos by DAS bookbinding on how to do it

And for the stiches, i found Sea Lemon's video (also on youtube) quite useful

#i am more of a 'make things with my hands' kindbof person than someone who knows how to do things with computers #hence the not so high quality ofvthe video #and for that i apologise.... #bookbinding #my video #cloth bookbinding #diy bookbinding #diy project

[movark]

Trying to format a booklet for bugle calls, but have no idea where to start. Anyone have guides or advice on printing something booklet/zine shaped from some pdf's of bugle calls? Any advice appreciated

#historical reenactment #reenacting #reenactor #zine help #diy bookbinding #zine #booklet

[decodamalion]

I made a hard cover printed copy of Malion for my partner :D

It's the final first draft! It has 312 pages and an interior blurb!

It took me months to edit and bind this, plus the cover is all DIY! I'm very happy with it :D

#malion #writing #art #my writing #malion series #writeblr #diy #bookblr #books #my books #diy bookbinding #diy book

[k00282871]

10-10-22

Bookbinding workshop with Lorraine.

Such a lovely workshop where we got to learn how to make our own little notebooks using traditional bookbinding methods and tools that I didn’t even know existed!

#bookbinding #workshop #diy #diy bookbinding #notebook

[lady-wallace]

Journal Craft Kits Now Available!

Hey everyone! I’m super excited to launch my first ever craft kit! 

You can now learn to make a coptic bound journal yourself with this kit. Everything is pre-cut and I have added a 13 page instruction book with both text instructions and full color photos. 

This would make a great summer project!

I also have 20 different cover papers for you to choose from.

You can order your kit HERE and you can use a special code just for my followers to get 10% off your order if you order before the end of June. Just use LADYW10 at checkout to claim your discount

#craft kits #handmade journal #make your own journal #diy journal #diy notebook #etsy crafts #craft kits on etsy #summer crafts #journal kit #notebook kit #coptic journal #coptic binding #book binding #bookbinding #bookbinding kit #diy bookbinding

[nocturnus33]

@omfgreylo Show how to print, fold, and make holes for #fanficbookbinding

#youtube #omfgreylo #fanficbookbinding #fanfic bookbinding #ficbinding #fan art #book binding #bookbinding #diy bookbinding #tutorial #ficbind tutorial

[anarchoherbalism]

Here's how I bind very thick zines with a bunch of random crap for tools and almost nothing that costs real money! There's a whole long blog post about it here which I really recommend if this is something you're interested in doing for a big project--I talk a lot more about the tricks and stuff I've learned from doing this for like, three years at this point?

(psssst and if the zine looks cool--you're in luck! it is free! digital / print)

#bookbinding #self publishing #zine making #zines #diy zines #diy publishing