#binderary2025

[veryoddbooks]

Decided that I was going to paint edges on some of my books and it turned out spectacularly!

Credit to SaraMalvaDesigns on Etsy for the stencil .svg files so I could cut them out with my cricut

[neptunesenceladus]

moment of appreciation for the humble french link stitch

[merlinmausi]

Behold, it's my first self-standing lectern book!

I've wanted to bind the @mxtxfoodzine into a hardcover book ever since I first discovered them in November, and this binderary I finally got around to it 🎉

I figured a lectern case would be perfect for a recipe book, plus I'd been wanting to try it for a while anyways! There's definitely some glue spots and wonky corners, but for a first try I'm very happy with it :)

Also a huge thanks to @spockandawe 's spreadsheet and all the people who wrote down their findings in the @renegadeguild 's discord server, I'd never have figured this out without y'all!

Introducing the 2024 MXTX Food Zine!

The third edition of the MXTX Food Zine is out now in PDF and ready-to-print format! Inside, you’ll find 55 delicious recipes and over 70 ne

Lectern books!!!! Once again, I'm running further behind than I wanted to be, but I said I was going to do geometry to this thing, and gosh

Lectern Book Case Dimensions

Lectern books!!!! Once again, I'm running further behind than I wanted to be, but I said I was going to do geometry to this thing, and gosh

[roseserpentpress]

Part two of mini GF books for earrings; the book of bill! (journal 3 here). Certainly a more frustrating endeavor; originally attempted to get the clasp work for a magnet, and then had to trouble shoot as it didn't work, and ended up on inserting a wire, which does work. I also painstaking painted the spine title (magnifying glasses my beloved), and cut out the bill corner clasps from one of those tin casserole dishes. The corner clasps which was my least favourite part because trying to make MANY tiny copies with a less malleable material annoyed the fuck out of me. However, I feel that's very much in the spirit for Bill's book... Also if you're like wow the blood for the end papers/blood discolouration on the covers look almost too realistic, don't worry about it. Nothing to worry about here at all. Nope. Nada.

WIP photos below the cut.

[cmdonovann]

woe. goth a study in scarlet be upon ye

i actually originally typeset & bound a first copy of this as a christmas gift, but decided i wanted a copy myself, so. here is my second copy. for my bookshelf :3c

also this typeset is available as a pdf in my folder of public domain typesets, if you wanna use it to make a book too :3

[kulapti]

Bookbinding of Carmilla by Sheridan le Fanu, Jan/Feb 2025.

Handmade custom copy of Carmilla using my typeset from the Renegade 2024 Tiny Books Bang! I made my own illustrations for this typeset, which was super fun, and you can find those in a separate post on my blog. Each of the four parts has a section illustration and different decorative margins, two of which you can see in the photos here. I used several pieces of butterfly imagery to reference Carmilla's line about girls being like caterpillars. There are several hidden critters in the margin illustrations. The title page is probably my favorite.

I was weird enough in the chat to convince a friend to read this novella and they liked it a lot, so I bound this copy for them! This tiny book uses hooked endpapers, a historic style I have been trying to master, and this one turned out quite well. This style involves being able to see into the hinge of the book, and the endpapers are decorative, rather than structural. If you want to see the difference, check out a mass produced book with decorative paper in the front: there's a single folded sheet of paper on each end of the book that glues the textblock (stack of pages) to each cover. In my book here, that paper is not a single piece but instead two pieces, and the textblock is held on to the covers by its spine instead. I finally remembered to put in an oxford hollow, which allows the cover to flex properly instead of being glued directly to the spine.

[missmists]

All text blocked and ready to party!

Can’t wait to start casing. Boards are prepped so now it’s just the aesthetic parts with 12 days left in Binderary 2025.

[heliotropepajamas-books]

Bookbinding: Charlottesville - a Fictional Account of a Nuclear Attack by Jan Randall

Charlottesville: A Fictional Account

Date Completed: 2/4/2025

Size: Octavo.  9,401 words, 99 pages.

Copies: 1

Binderary 2025: Book 2

This is a public domain piece of speculative fiction commissioned by the US government in the late 70s asking the question of what would happen in a small city if a nuclear bomb took out DC and many other major US cities.  I have no idea why they chose Charlottesville (maybe because it was close enough to DC that many of the target audience in Washington would have visited?).

I went with yellow and black on the cover to conjure up the old fallout shelter signs on public buildings, and the image on the cover page is the local university’s logo from the time period.  They used it up through the 90s but it was surprisingly hard to find online.  Thank goodness for the library’s online image collection.

Now with link up top! Or read the whole report this story was a part of on the Internet Archive