#tiny books

[kulapti]

Gawain & the Green Knight bookbinding, Nov 2023. Typesetting by @mourningmountainsbindery

Materials: textblock is acid-free printer paper, PVA glue, cotton thread coated in beeswax, and cover is acid-free board, Italian bookcloth (3 colors), metallic green foil backed with scrap paper, and chiyogami paper endpapers.

#my art #bookbinding #artists on tumblr #handmade books #tiny books #gawain and the green knight #it would have worked better with higher contrast between bookcloth colors but ah well! #binding from the #tiny books bang 2023 #I really like this typeset! the decorative details are fun and match really well #described #id in alt text #tailfeather binding

[tilthedayidice]

I’m making a miniature library so I…. I have to make books… I didn’t… I didn’t think this through… my hands are in pain… release me…. I’m losing vision

#not dice #miniatures #tiny #tiny books #miniature books

[gargoyleandgremlinpress]

Last week, I followed along with @simply-sithel's Tiny Book workshop for @renegadepublishing's Binderary again this year, and made a mini font sampler. You can't tell from the pics, but this year's book (on the right) is a big improvement on last year's! The case is straight and not skewed! I trimmed the text block! Badly, but it's trimmed. Not bad for a two-hour sprint.

#fanbinding #tiny books #binderary2024

[mythrilthread]

So, today I found out that I never posted the first iteration of this project here, so I guess it's time to remedy that.

The Vampire Box is a remix of Tessa Gratton's short story by the same name, written by me and my beloved spouse. It was inspired by ttrpg characters very near and dear to our hearts, and a screenshot from Castle Rock because fancasting actors as your NPCs will get you like that. It is a story about growing up and learning what's important to you, and also about keeping a vampire in a cage in your basemet to bring your family prosperity. It's short, and sweet, and I love it.

The original version (the one with a cage on the cover) is one of my first projects in general (so it was made about a year ago), and my first ever A6 book. It was a lot of firsts—first debossing on the cover, first quarto, first book printed on that good white paper to make the illustrations (there are two, the second one is a full spread) pop. I made it in a frenzy, as my darling was returning home from a trip and I wanted to give them a surprise gift, and I messed it up, and they cried anyway, and we made the version in the pictures together.

The second one also gave me hell, I think I redid it three or four times? I finished it about a week ago. It's ridiculously tiny (this is the format that prints 60 pages per side of A4 sheet, it's like an inch and a half tall). I used a different approach to typesetting: the vampire's pov is set in red, and not in a cage like in A6 version, I dropped the illustrations here. But I still love that they are very obviously the same book while also being different.

#bookbinding #fanbinding #ficbinding #mythril thread books #tiny books #amber family manufacture

[serpentsnestpress]

So despite missing out on half of Binderary to go on vacation (no regrets) I bound a pair of books on my long international flight! Tumblr ate the first iteration of this post, so here goes again. See below for pics of the whole process.

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I brought supplies that would make it through security—small scissors, needles, a t-pin to use as an awl—and all the thin board, bookcloth, and paper I'd need. I brought a small container of PVA tucked in with my liquids, and a mini silicone brush so I wouldn't need to rinse it.

I challenged myself to do all steps on the plane, including cutting the pages—my printed pages were initially cut down just enough to fit in an envelope. I altered my 16mo punching jig, and used the in-flight magazine as a punching cradle.

An additional challenge came later in sewing headbands for the first time. Not my best work, but I was going off of half-remembered instructions from the Duranbinding demonstration, and using doubled up sewing thread from an emergency repair kit.

Wonder Clips worked perfectly as tiny clamps throughout the process, holding signatures together, pressing endpapers down, and clamping the spine.

I did a half binding using skivertex and some leftover arrestox. Endpapers are lokta(?) with leaf and bark inclusions.

Instead of rigging a press with extra board (the wonder clips weren't quite big enough) I jammed the cased-in books into the holder for the in-flight magazine, helpfully labelled for such a purpose.

Finally, titling was done with a metallic felt-tip pen.

The whole process took several hours, so it's definitely a craft for a longer flight, but I would absolutely do this again. It was a lot of fun!

#bookbinding #fanbinding #my books #planebinding lol #binderary2023 #tiny books

[fallingsunbindery]

Les Fleurs du Mal by Charles Baudelaire 240 pages Completed September 4, 2023

Hello to the TINIEST book I've ever made (or seen in real life). Credit goes to @simply-sithel for the typeset and the wonderful rainbow printing. My eternal sorrow that I received the printed (and cut!!!) pages in mid-April and didn't do a single thing with them until sometime in July.

The finished dimensions of this book are about 1 3/8" wide, 1 5/8" tall, and 3/4" thick. I'm not rightly sure what you'd even call this size but I love it so much, it fits in the palm of my hand and I can almost hide it completely by making a fist. Making the case and endpapers also let me use some paper I've had sitting around since 2020 when I first started bookbinding (though I got distracted and used the same paper for both, oops).

#bookbinding #hand binding #common domain #2023 #tiny books #charles baudelaire

[zhalfirin-binds]

Call of Cthulhu Tiny books WIP pics

All of those were done in the aftermath of Renegade's tiny books bang 2023. You see what happened was, I did a typeset (typesetting one book for the exchange meant I'd receive a copy bound by someone else!), but I could not decide which one I wanted to submit. So I did a test print of the different variations, but since they are so small and the test print took only 2 sheets and I had to print 1 sheet anyway to check margins and the design I picked, I just printed both sheets. Now there they were and it would have been a horrible waste to throw three perfectly good already printed books away. So I bound them and then I had 4 tiny book blocks to try different designs and use up scrap leather pieces that were too small for anything else. Only 4 months later all of them have found a new home and I could do more if I want to.

#bookbinding #wip call of cthulhu #call of cthulhu #tiny books #handsewn endbands #leatherbinding #coloured edges

[penpanoply]

Am I too late for the Carry On Countdown?

#handlettering #book quotes #simon snow #snowbaz #rainbow rowell #tiny books #coc 2022 #carry on countdown #shows up covered in half the countryside

[towns-end-bindery]

Books I bound in 2023

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(Or at least the ones I remembered to take pictures of)

TOTAL books bound: 27 books

STATS: Blank journals: 8 Coptic stitch: 2 Square back bradel: 15 Rounded spine: 2 3-piece bradel: 4 Really tiny books: 4 Letter Quarto: 6 Letter Folio: 9 My own typeset: 7 Other people’s typesets: 5 Rebinds: 7

I can see my own growth when comparing my latest books with the first few I made in the spring. It's pretty amazing to see.

#bookbinding #a year in review #2023 recap #handmade book #hand made book #hand bound book #handbound book #journal #rebind #tiny books #coptic binding #arts and crafts #fanfic binding #fanfic bookbinding #ficbinding #book art #towns end bindery #townsendbindery

[zhalfirin]

Call of Cthulhu - H. P. Lovecraft

Materials used

case construction covers - grey board, 1,5mm spine stiffener - cardboard covering materials - goat leather, decorative papers title - hot stamping foil

inner book text block paper - Munken pure, 100gsm endbands - Gütermann button hole silk endpapers - decorative paper Dimension: ~ 5,2 x 3,7cm

#bookbinding #tiny books #call of cthulhu #lovecraft #leather bindings #handsewn endbands

[nocturnus33]

I always wanted to make tiny books, but I was intimidated by them. This weekend, my husband and I gave it a try. They're just mini notebooks, but we're happy with the results.

#tiny book #tiny books #renegade bindery #book binding #My bindings #handmade #handmadebook #hand made books

[kulapti]

Golden Key tiny book charm, Feb 2024.

All my other tiny book charms except my first one were intended as gifts, and I decided it was about time to make one with words for myself. It includes some of my favorite odds and ends, including some poems, short stories, excerpts from novels. I nicknamed the project The Golden Key after the first story I picked, a fairy tale from the Brothers Grimm collection.

#my art #bookbinding #artists on tumblr #tiny things #tiny books #tailfeather binding #the golden key #another one finished during binderary! #binderary2024

[othmeralia]

Well, this was quite the surprise!

Our collections assistant is going through a rather large donation that has fun little surprises like this. A jewelry box with a very small leather bound book! The book contains the United States' pledge of allegiance.

#tiny books #small books #leather bound books #donations #surprise! #othmeralia

[jonathananubian]

First attempt at a tiny book. I made a couple of mistakes but I'm proud of it~

#handmade #tiny books #first attempt #tiny creatures #ink stamps #hand drawn

[fucksurass]

FEBRUARY 1ST

Yeah I got a tiny book. So what?! Fuck you!

#south park #artists on tumblr #art #traditional art #craig tucker #craig south park #sp craig #tiny books #his birthday is coming soon! #Bro my pen looks like the tree from the fucking lorax

[cattail-printing]

Just starting out the bookbinding journey by putting some blank accordion mini journals together. This one is from a class I took a while back, using some materials from a kit. I love how this came out though! I've been making a little army of mini journals ever since, which I'll show more shots of soon!

#mini journals #bookbinding #tiny books #cattail printing #bindery