I made a thing! As a slightly late 1 year anniversary of the greatest album of all time release, I present you with
The Tortured Poets Department lyrics book
📋 typeset by the lovely @sayornispress
📖 bind by me (I still can't believe I did it!!!!)
👩🏻🏫 technical binding info and inspo from @phoenixortheflame, @wisewitchbindery and memoru (the last one is a Polish resource!)
This is a fanbind of the TTPD lyrics by Taylor Swift, made for personal use only. The typeset is made to mirror the official lyrics videos which is SO.COOL!
It will be a gift to a friend who introduced me to Taylor's music 🤍
My rambling about it under the cut below!
oh
my
god, I'm so excited!!!!! This is a very first bind that I share with an audience of more than 1 internet person so please be gentle with me haha
I only found out about what binding is and how AWESOME it is by fanfic binders here on tumblr. I do plan on ficbinding in the future so watch that space!! Honestly, having those beloved words on paper rather than your phone screen is just SO PRECIOUS.
It's actually my second bind. The first one is honestly still just so close to my heart I haven't shared it with the Internet yet, maybe in some time :') As I am just a beginner this bind has maaaany flaws - I didin't get the format right, trimming my text block with an old photo trimmer was a Bad Idea™, I printed the photo on the wrong end of the canvas so I had to just glue it on :D And so on and so on, but I'm gonna learn from these mistakes when creating the next one!!! For the things that did work out: I wanted the theme colours to be the colours of TTPD on the Eras Tour so white, black and gold. I used the plainest cream canvas available, with just a white and black photo on the cover, gold lettering on the spie and a lil sticker on the back. For endpapers I printed my favourite quotes from the songs and then foiled it. AND I managed to sew with a non-wax thread without crying too!
I had the ambition of starting from the very beginning - so making a typeset myself. And then I lost my patience about half an hour in and decided to stick to ready typesets first :D
Now, for the Taylor contents! I absolutely love the concept of lyrics videos, they just make the words really hit you, you know? So when I saw Phoebe very kindly sharing the Taylor typesets they made - I may have screamed a little :D And I absolutely knew that it will be a gift to a fellow Swiftie - a friend whose fault it is I am in this Taylor Swift-shaped madness since last year!
My Swiftie story is pretty new really - I liked Taylor, sure, I liked how kind she was, I liked her mainstream songs, absolutely loved how she DEVASTATED me with Safe and Sound back in my The Hunger Games era. But I didn't really know her other songs or much about her. And then Ela took me to the cinema to see The Eras Tour and well. Here we go, some months later and I am still going on and on about the brilliance of it. I got to see it life in Warsaw, which was a life-altering experience and couldn't get it out of my head ever since.
Hence, the literal studies of the lyrics :D
It really is a special moment for me because I dreamed of learning how to bind your own book. And it really is a full-circle kind of situation. Why? Well, because going to see the Eras Tour life made me believe dreams do come true - so chase them! So I went to bookbinding workshop, bought the materials and here we are!
inspired by this wonderful work. If you haven’t come across her I really recommend to check out @dddots blog! imo she’s an incredibly skilled bookbinder.
I had no idea how she made this box, so I asked my collegue and he could help me out on how to go about it. This is a first attempt. Just to get used to the shape and curves.
I settled for fewer corners. In hindsight that was a poor choice though. The fewer corners, result in sharper angles and thus put more stress on the connecting edges. I honestly wish I’d think about these things beforehand. It’s still good experience and I have a few more ideas for the next one.
Segundo cuaderno realizado por proyectoencuadernados en las clases de encuadernación que dictaba los miércoles del 2019 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 Vamos de a poco explorando nuevos formatos, materiales y mejorando detalles. ¿Les gusta? 📚📖✂️
I was so excited to show you this sketchbook I made last week for @pikaroline ‘s birthday ! The photos don’t show the colors like they deserve, it’s really really better in reality. If some of you are interested for a sketchbook commission, just DM me ! It’s ~25€. ☺️✨ #sketchbook #handmade #bookinding #art #draw #galaxy #crayon #doodle #planet
