your heart; a doorway by @heartslogos
"Yes. Many people died in this house," Al-Haitham confirms. "Some of them are even buried on the land." And then, almost like an afterthought, he answers, "It is my house."
Misplaced Lens Cap
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One Nice Bug Per Day

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PUT YOUR BEARD IN MY MOUTH

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your heart; a doorway by @heartslogos
"Yes. Many people died in this house," Al-Haitham confirms. "Some of them are even buried on the land." And then, almost like an afterthought, he answers, "It is my house."
one of these days i will not case in crooked but today is not that day
A Thread Unraveled by @theheirofashandfire
Maedhros wakes up again, on the first morning of the Nirnaeth Arnoediad. Of course, nobody calls it that. For them, it hasn't happened yet.
Approximately one million years later, here is my project from the yearly Renegade Exchange! Truly, this fic was such a pleasure to work on. I bound this one fandom blind-ish, which is to say that I had the passing familiarity with LOTR that any D&D player / child who read any fantasy she could get her hands on has. I did very much come out of this bind with a new found love for a bunch of dysfunctional elves. Love those guys, and love this incredible fic.
About the Bind
Text Block: 20/50 lb cream short grain
Endpapers: Indian Marbles in Gold/Silver on Black (~125 gsm), prepared as made endpapers
Case Style: three piece in-boards bradel binding, covered with Verona bookcloth in coal
Cover and Titling: foiled using the WRMK foil quill attachment with a Silhouette Portrait 3 and only a medium amount of swearing and threatening the vinyl cutter with bodily harm
Additional typeset pictures, as well as progress pictures and construction / design notes below the cut.
Free Ornamentation V. This work is dedicated to the public domain 🐟
20 questions about bookbinding
What are you excited about binding right now?
What is your latest binding?
What was your first binding?
What is your favourite binding so far?
When did you get into bookbinding?
What is a binding by another binder you really love?
What’s your favourite type of binding? (coptic, stab, fine, Bradel, etc.)
What’s a binding type you’ve never done but that you’d love to try one day?
How would you describe your binding style?
What’s your favourite bookbinding tool?
Do you have a DIY press/what is your press like?
What is your workspace like?
Do you have a favourite cover material?
Do you have a favourite paper for textblocks?
What are your feelings about headbands?
What type of text do you usually bind?
Do you match the aesthetic of the bind to the text?
Have you ever done a rebind?
Do you have other craft hobbies besides bookbinding?
If you had to give past!you one advice about bookbinding what would it be, and is it the same advice you give newbies?
The Starless Sea rebind 📚
Nature through microscope & camera. 1905. Cover detail.
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This book has reached its recipient, so I can share pictures now! This is Deadset by @pbaintthetb, an amazing Nie Huaisang fic in which Nie Huaisang is murdered and becomes a tgcf-style ghost.
I did a kintsugi-look binding for a different calamity au (ironically, one in which Jin Guangyao was the ghost) but spoilers, this was the fic that I first thought of using it for. And while my first attempt was just a surface design on the cover, I built this into the structure of the book itself. The cover structure is inspired by Ben Elbel's "pixel binding" which is a book cover made of many tiny squares; using irregular pieces here makes it not quite as flexible, but I'm still very happy with the effect.
The individual sections of the cover were glued to a thin, flexible paper, then covered with a decorative paper that I worked down into the spaces between (definitely use paste rather than pva for this). The gold is deco foil, often called toner-reactive foil but it adheres to dry pva as well, so I simply filled the channels with pva and then applied the foil using the head of a pin to apply pressure (you don't need heat when applying it to pva).
For the rounded spine, I used leather pieces so that I could still have the thickness but they would be flexible enough that I wouldn't have to sacrifice the irregular shapes.
The way Ben Elbel builds his pixel binding books is the textblock is wrapped in a suede cover, basically like a paperback but suede, and then the pixel binding cover is glued to the suede at the spine. I'm not sure that duplicating this construction was necessary here, but it worked out well enough. The suede-covered textblock is an interesting look and feel all by itself actually.
N’KISI BRICOLAGE STURGEON
carved and painted mahogany, mica, nails, handmade paper, found natural objects, tintypes, 1800’s text paper, Ethiopian and Coptic bindings
13x59x14 inches
Harrisburg Telegraph, Pennsylvania, March 29, 1881
Fanbind: The Brooklyn Boys by @buckets-and-trees
In my defense, I knew exactly what I was getting into. I just didn’t realize how much it would grow from my initial plan to what it ended up being. This is the third of my @fanartfrenzy binds, for the square "fic in my most recent fandom".
The Brooklyn Boys by @buckets-and-trees is a fun story. It starts in two places: one set of stories that are Steve Rogers x Reader, and the other set that are Bucky Barnes x Reader. Two sets of completely sweet little stories that you don’t realize are part of the same world until about five stories in.
And it’s not until about seven stories in that you realize that the Reader in both stories is the same person.
Now that I’ve spoiled you on the Big Reveal (sorry about that, unfortunately necessary to understand why I bound the stories the way I did), hopefully you can see why it would be a kick to bind.
(Please note that this post is long and image-heavy, so the rest will be under the cut.)
ocean books 🌊📘🐟
I recently completed my bind of the wonderful wildfire by @butdriampagliacci! The cover art was commissioned by the author, and I received permission to use it; the spine is a modified version of the design from TheCottagePress on Etsy, which I purchased the SVG file for (it was hard to find any graphics of flames that were both long enough and not too childish-looking). This bind was a lot of firsts for me, including actually making a post online about it, apparently. Whoops!
It was also my first time printing on bookcloth, and I'm pretty happy with the results, though the process wasn't without some mishaps.
More pictures below!
In celebration of the start of Binderary 2026, am dragging out some macro book shots from my Drafts... These beauties are by @katrie-reads !
The Conference of the Birds, Persian Manuscript, circa 1600; Safavid Iran (Isfahan)
I have a billion photos and projects and I need to update this blog more often.
But since I apparently can't post anything serious lately, here's the result of a series of tests I made. First time using adhesive vinyl cut with my Silhouette, repurposing old cardboard packages and the cheapest bookcloth I could find on Aliexpress (if you can avoid it, I recommend avoiding it. Seriously. This bookcloth was a nightmare.)
Also, my new "method for trimming" doesn't work at all. I'm going to buy myself a guillotine for my birthday, I think.
Endpages are the lyrics of Never Gonna Give You Up, printed in mirrored Sankofa Display font. It's a REALLY lousy notebook, okay? 😅
Everyone's all "ohhh 2026 bring back physical media" until I start talking illuminated manuscripts and then suddenly we're not on the same page anymore