I had a lot of fun with the cover design on this one, the planet in the middle is a trace of an image I found of the planet Sullust as well as it's moons, because the fic is set on Sullust. The bookcloth I used is dubletta nutmeg, and the design is printed on using my inkjet printer.
The endpapers are cloth jointed and are marbled papers done by Ann Muir, that I bought from shepherds in London. The endbands are faux double core sewn with silk embroidery floss I found in my local reuse craft store for only 50p each!
...I also somehow managed to fold the first signature wrong on this so the first 20ish pages are out of order 😭
A Mandalorian Guide on How To Save the Jedi in Just Three Easy Steps
by miyaji_08
link to the fic
It's an A4 octavo and 416 pages, so small but chunky! I decided to attempt backing on this one because there was quite a bit of swell on the spine.
Endpapers are printed lokta from shepherds in London, and the cover is dubletta mustard. The design is printed using my inkjet printer. The endbands are hand sewn faux double core, using embroidery floss.
(I realised whilst taking pictures that I miss spelled the author name on the cover, oops 😅)
These are both books I made as a christmas gift for my mother last year. She is a big fan of fairytales.
Hans Christian Andersen Fairy Tales
The endpapers are recycled papers I bought from shepherds in London, and the cover papers are marbled papers by Ann Muir that I bought there as well, specifically for this project in an effort to match the title page. The bookcloth I used is dubletta nutmeg.
Grimms' Fairy Tales
Endpapers for this one are a slightly different recycled paper from shepherds, and the cover papers are also Ann Muir papers. The bookcloth for this one is dubletta mustard
I decided to try and teach a friend how to bookbind, and this was the project I did during that process to show him the steps. I decided to give it a christmas gift for another friend.
It's an A4 octavo, typeset by myself. The endbands are hand sewn with embroidery floss. The bookcloth is duo pepperoni, and cover papers are from papiersprina, I bought both of these from a bookbinding fair in the Netherlands last october. The endpapers are from a pile of random papers I got from my local reuse store. The spine text is done in HTV.
I saw the typeset of this and thought it looked really cool, so I decided to make a couple copies of it for myself and a friend.
This project was my first time working with leather and doing cutouts in a cover. I also attempted cloth jointed endpapers as well, I quite like how they turned out. The endpapers are Ann Muir papers from shepherds in London.
The endbands are faux double core, sewn with embroidery floss. The edges are painted with watered down gold acrylic paint, and the cover is decorated using a foil quill on a silhouette machine.
I also decided to do a peller case for the copy I was giving to a friend. I couldn't find that many resources for doing it so I had to mess around trying to figure it out, but it worked in the end! Even if it does look a bit boring on the outside XD
I've been reading a lot of star wars fics with a focus on Mandalorians that include a lot of Mando'a. So I thought I'd make myself a little dictionary to help me translate :)
I started typesetting the dictionary at the start of September and due to procrastination finished it at the end of October, and then managed to complete the actual book in 2 days lol
The cover is blue goat leather decorated with a foil quill and white holographic foil. Endpapers are by papiersprina that I bought at a bookbinding fair in the Netherlands last October. Headbands are hand-sewn with cotton embroidery thread.
This book was my first attempt at a full leather book, which was made easier by the fact that it is an octavo, and therefore tiny :)
The map inside the book was from this star wars fandom page, and then edited to be black lines. The stars on the title page are also edited from that image. The words in the dictionary are taken from here.
Another copy of Pride and Prejudice, this time in A6 because I wanted to make a little copy of it for myself... and then I ended up giving to one of my mothers friends XD
This was my first attempt at doing cloth jointed endpapers, which I think is one of my new favourite things. Also my first slipcase (when I made it at least, I've made a number of them since)
Cover is metaluxe buckram from ratchfords, it looks very shiny in person, very fun to use in projects. Cover decoration is done with a foil quill using my silhouette cutting machine, accidentally broke the fine tip quill tho when doing the text on the spine :'(
I bound this back in June as a gift for my mother, just getting round to posting it now XD
This was my first book I'd done as an B6 and I have to say it's definitely my favourite size for a full length book, it's still got weight to it like a larger book but it feels so much nicer to hold in your hand.
All the images in it are from the illustrated version on project gutenberg, and the cover decoration is from the original copies of that. It took me a while to find a useable copy of that illustration though annoyingly.
It's a 3-piece bradel, because I wanted to use that green paper for the covers but I didn't want to trust paper for the stability of the hinges. And also because I wouldn't be able to foil that cover design as a full piece using my silhouette portrait as the machine is too small.
This story has been on my binding list since I started learning how to bind books. It was probably the inspiration to learn even, after seeing all the really cool copies people had made already.
I've been working on this book on and off for the past month, and I've learned a lot of different things during the process. Mainly that it helps to look up tutorials for things before you actually start doing them.
It's an A4 folio (A5 sized book), is 528 pages long and about 3.5cm thick, so it's got quite a bit of weight to it. This was my first a5 book so it was very fun to make, it really feels like a real book and it lays open really nicely. It's also my first time doing a 3 piece bradel using an actual tutorial rather than just loking at a picture and going "I'm sure I can recreate that", turns out it's a lot easier following someone elses instructions, who knew lol.
Printed on sugarcane paper, hand sewn double core endbands, cover material is dubletta purple blue bookcloth, and the cover is decorated using a wrmk foil quill and silver foil.
The endbands were my second attempt at the double core style, I've done a few of a different type before but I found this method a lot easier, albeit it still took me 2hrs for each end :')
I tried to match the colours to parts of the books, so the purple and turqoise(?) are from the bookcloth and the black and light blue from the endpaper.
For the title page and cover is used page borders from this shop, the title and chapter font is blackadder ITC, text font is EB garamond, drop caps are Aristokrat Zierbuchstaben and the paragraph dividers are just these emojis I found somewhere 𓆝 𓆟 𓆞 𓆝.
Thanks to @muffinlance for the amazing story, it really is a work of art, and I shall enjoy having a copy on my shelf next to all my other favourite stories <3
Fanbinding of The Humbling River by mysterycyclone on ao3
link to the fic
The book is an a4 quarto, so is about 15cm x 10cm. It is 528 pages long and is about 3.5cm thick.
This one was my first attempt at rounding a book, which I think is now my preffered way of doing things. It makes the book look more elegant and professional. I also attempted painted edges for this one as well, I just used watered down acrylic paint, with a layer of silver to start and then speckled some black and white on top. I'm very pleased with how it turned out.
The endbands were also a first attempt at using more than 2 colours, which did make things more complicated but I like how it turned out so I think it was worth the extra hassle.
The text paper for this one is 75gsm sugarcane paper, the endpapers are handmade pastepapers and the cover material is heritage metallic buckram. The heritage buckram is my new favourite bookcloth, it's such a lovely material to work with and has a lovely texture to it.
For the body text I used the font courier new, title font is powderfinger and the chapter headers are powderfinger type. I felt like these fonts somewhat went with the vibes of the fic, they give it a nice feel as well.
I enjoyed reading this fic a lot and I really enjoyed making it into a physical copy, it'll now be taking its place on my bookshelf :)
Fanbinding of Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spider by Bergen on ao3
This was my second attempt at binding a fic, although I have done a number of blank notebooks as well. I'm really pleased with how this one turned out and had a lot of fun designing it.
I made it as an a6 book so that it could be a reasonable thickness The book is an a4 quarto (a6 page size). It's 264 pages and about 2.5cm thick.
I used 75gsm sugarcane paper for the textblock as it's got a nice color and feel to it. The text font is EB Garamond, drop caps font is CF Cherokee, title and chapter font is Pine Forest, and the author name font is botanink (one of my favourite fonts, it's so pretty).
I decorated the cover using heat transfer vinyl, and used the silhouette studio space to design it. The case is covered in atlantic seaboard bookcloth which has a lovely texture to it (that did make it harder to attach the htv though unfortunately).
The endbands are hand sewn and I shose the colors to match the endpapers and the gold vinyl on the cover.
I loved this fic a lot and decided to make it a physical copy so I can have it on my bookshelf alongside all my other favourite books.
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