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World's Okayest Slipcase Tutorial (?) Part 1 with a lot of badly taken photos and explanation
A while ago me and @edelkirschehandmade were making Project Hail Mary rebinds at the same time, and both of us went the extra mile of making slipcases for it and during the whole process I created a step-by-step tutorial how to make one for edelkirsche in the @renegadeguild satellite channel
Part 1 will be how I made the casing and put them together
Part 2 will be how to glue the cloth on
I learned how to make slipcases by following DAS video tutorial, but if you're like me and not the biggest fan of video tutorial, I will try my best to explain my steps here.
This is not a 1:1 tutorial of DAS slipcase tutorial, this is how I have been making mine. I also use various tool I purchased from Schmedt/iBookbinding that help me keeping the pieces in place when assembling. I will also link them in my posts (nothing is sponsored, needed to hit Schmedt's minimum order amount couple of times and grabbed them.)
So the very first thing you should do is measure your book and write it down on paper. Make sure you are measuring from different spots, as book binding is a manual process and sometimes the measurement can vary by 1-2mm. Write down the biggest measurement you get
I write down the measurements for the TOP/BOTTOM and SPINE piece, and add ~3-4mm. This is to account for the inside paper lining thickness and bookcloth when you fold it over the edge.
Adding too many extra mm could make the slipcase too loose and your book will slip out very easily, and making it too tight means you can't put the book in without having to use force and risk damaging the book and slipcase. My slipcases do tend to end a wee bit on the snug side, still easy to push in but need to shake a few times to get the book out, so I usually add a ribbon to the case to make it easier to remove the book.
DAS measures all the pieces at once. For the FRONT and BACK pieces, you'll have to account in the board thickness into the measurement too, so the math is something like
board thickness*2 + SPINE Length
and the width is 140mm (same as TOP/BOTTOM Length)
BUT, I am bad at math. I had to redo the FRONT and BACK pieces for slipcases soooo many times now I just assemble the SPINE - TOP - BOTTOM pieces first, measure the total from there and then cut the FRONT and BACK. If you hate cutting, and you're more confident in your measurement and math you can also cut the front and back piece at this stage
Another important thing to keep in mind is the grain direction of the board, when you're cutting the pieces the grain direction should be running like this:
Once the pieces are cut, I glue them onto the inside paper lining. Make sure that here the grain direction is also running the same as the board pieces:
After that is done and I have cut the pieces from the paper, I start assembling it:
Make sure that the SPINE piece is sandwiched between the TOP/BOTTOM pieces. A cleaner visual of what I mean by that:
I use the following tools to keep boards in place while the glue is drying:
Magnetic corner clamp, 90°
Corner clamp with guide grooves
Corner clamp, 90°
Once that done, I note down the measurements for the FRONT/BACK pieces:
As I mentioned before, the formula for the FRONT/BACK Length is
board thickness*2 + SPINE Length
my boards are 2.5mm thick
my SPINE length is 213mm
so that means 2.5mm*2 + 213mm = 218mm (which is also the measurement my ruler is giving me yay me)
the width for the FRONT/BACK is 140mm (same as TOP/BOTTOM Length)
Once again, make sure the grain direction of your board is correct, glue the inside paper lining to the board
aaaand it's assmebling time!
I like to use my 3kg coin box as a weight for pressing the board pieces down lmfao
After the glue is dry, your slipcase should look like this:
aaaand that's it for part 1 :) will work on part 2 this weekend, how to apply cloth on
Paperback to hardcover rebind. I made four different cover variants. Adrian pattern is printed on 50x50cm fabric, which gave me enough wiggle room to make sure that none of the four slipcases have the same pattern
Andy Weir was kind enough to send me signed book plates! One of them I've put in my personal copy, the others I will be saving for something later coming this year :)
#what method did you use to get the design onto the book fabric#if I may ask#it looks really really cool
@stew-arte I use a textile printing service based in Poland to print my art on fabric and then DIY it into bookcloth!
The service is called Cottonbee, and I use the cotton canva 185gsm option
I pick the 50x50cm option, which is usually enough for a full wrap cover. Costs 5 EUR per fabric. I don't have the space for a big color printer at home and tbh I don't think I will be getting one
And then I use heat n bond to back the tissue paper onto the backside. There are other ways to back textile into book cloth, but I haven't tried them yet. I also haven't tried applying glue directly to the cloth without any paper backing because I have a tendency to use too much glue sometimes and I worry about the glue seeping through
"death and taxes (and shane hollander)," fanbind for @fingersfallingupwards! an absolutely awe-inspiring fic of second chances and the human experience that has brought me so much joy. bound for me and the author, more photos and details on my AO3!
Book 77 and 78 ✅ ✅ were copies of Courage [it couldn’t come at a worse time] by @veilofimag. I was immediately totally captured by this story and absolutely had to bind it. Then it ended up on my bench for months because real life 😮💨 but we got there and USPS came through and everything is delivered so I can share!! I am SO happy with how this marbled paper inlay worked out on the cover and how smooth the vinyl lays on the Japanese bookcloth. And, of course, with the fic inside. Everyone go read Shane actually getting to make up his own mind and choose Ilya on purpose.
Fanbinding: i know where to draw the line by magneticwave
This was for my local Heated Rivalry fanbinding exchange (everyone picks a fic and gets a random one; no prior matches or references.) I wanted to stick with my exchange tradition of trying new things, so this was "horizontal stripes that go around the spine." If there's a better word for that I don't know it.
What I did was I glued the boards and spine to brown paper first, and then put the fabric on top; that way they didn't overlap each other, which I thought would make it hard to open, but also means there weren't any gaps around the hinge because it's all glued down.
I learned from my Moby Dick mistakes and glued the fabric on in top-down order, instead of color by color, so that I wouldn't have to cut the middle strip with insane precision. I didn't get the edge quite as clean as I'd like to have; I need to put little grippy feet on my ruler so that it doesn't slide. Normally my lines do not matter this much.
Chapter heading page is, of course, a goal, and the endpapers are the only red and blue paper I had, which excited then disappointed @english-mace when she learned that nobody in the fic does any murders.
I am looking to commission two pieces for my PHM fic, The Long Journey Home. I am looking for two artists to do a magazine cover and a book cover. The selected artists will get see a snippet of an upcoming chapter. :)
Commission Request Form
If you are interested, please fill out the linked form by Wednesday, July 1.
@overlyenthusiasticfictionreader wait omg I have this bookmarked because I was planning on reading and binding it later (with authors permission ofc) when it's completed I'm running towards the form 🏃🏃
Paperback to hardcover rebind. I made four different cover variants. Adrian pattern is printed on 50x50cm fabric, which gave me enough wiggle room to make sure that none of the four slipcases have the same pattern
Andy Weir was kind enough to send me signed book plates! One of them I've put in my personal copy, the others I will be saving for something later coming this year :)
#what method did you use to get the design onto the book fabric#if I may ask#it looks really really cool
@stew-arte I use a textile printing service based in Poland to print my art on fabric and then DIY it into bookcloth!
The service is called Cottonbee, and I use the cotton canva 185gsm option
I pick the 50x50cm option, which is usually enough for a full wrap cover. Costs 5 EUR per fabric. I don't have the space for a big color printer at home and tbh I don't think I will be getting one
And then I use heat n bond to back the tissue paper onto the backside. There are other ways to back textile into book cloth, but I haven't tried them yet. I also haven't tried applying glue directly to the cloth without any paper backing because I have a tendency to use too much glue sometimes and I worry about the glue seeping through
Paperback to hardcover rebind. I made four different cover variants. Adrian pattern is printed on 50x50cm fabric, which gave me enough wiggle room to make sure that none of the four slipcases have the same pattern
Andy Weir was kind enough to send me signed book plates! One of them I've put in my personal copy, the others I will be saving for something later coming this year :)
after many months of not being able to do almost any bookbinding at all, i bring to you: handprint on a belladonna heart by the magical @maplesdonut! everyone go read it right now i'm so serious. pause and go read it. you can come back when you're done
ok, now that you've finished reading, WASN'T IT SO GOOD? obviously, i had to read it ten times and then bind it immediately.
i haven't done much typesetting lately either, so i was reminded how much i enjoy it while i designed this one and looked for the perfect wishing well graphic and spent an hour trying to decide exactly how the spacing on the title should be (i swear this is fun for me).
just in case you forgot earlier, here is another link to this fantastically devastating s2 death curse fic. go read it!!!!
