#fiend-for-book-binding

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My rebind of Any Way The Wind Blows by Rainbow Rowell

book cloth: Verona bookcloth in Lilac HTV: Cricut holographic blue & Everyday Iron On in white typeface: Orpheus Pro and Belda

featuring: rats from the rat date, the tape recorder, a demon, and a slice of Ruth's cake; and signed by @rainbowrowell 💖

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if you like any of these, then imagine what i can do with 1. time and 2. money and 3. The Wisdom of Emperors☀️🪿

(there are 7 more special luxury editions of @ariaste's new book The Wisdom of Emperors currently available on Kickstarter!)

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Part 1: Design Research

It's Wi(p)sdom Wednesday! The day I update y'all on how bookbinding for The Wisdom of Emperor's is going! (I've decided. It's official. I'm doing it.)

First and most importantly, I finished reading the book. It! is! so! good! I laughed! I cried! I learned things! I cried some more! My mind was buzzing! My heart was full! My face was wet!

I spent the rest of my flight (after crying into my t-shirt) rereading bits, highlighting things, and sketching.

The way I like to make my designs is by reading (and/or rereading,) making notes of important objects, and then deciding on an overarching motif that will allow me to incorporate all those objects in a natural way. (A good example of this is Yield Under Great Persuasion, where a marrow vine tied together all the objects/imagery from the book I wanted to incorporate.) But for other projects, there's been only one or two specific objects, places, themes, or ideas that I ended up using as my main design. Depends on the book! Depends on the vibe!

Before finishing the book, I went to The Met to do some research on Hadrianic Era Roman art.

Putting photos & the rest of this post below the cut!

Before that, I also had a Pinterest board which I shared a few weeks ago but now can be ~*~*revealed*~*~

As you may be able to sense, there's a theme. The theme being mosaics. Now, while I love love love the idea of doing a mosaic design for the outside of the pop-up box and the second luxe edition, I don't know if I can actually pull that off, but I'm trying.

I have created several brushes in Procreate so I can potentially "draw" in tiles. Are the brushes perfect? No. BUT it means I can make something like this...

...in about five minutes, instead of.........I don't even know how long it would take to draw every single individual tile. And with most of it done, I can go back and clean up a few overlapping or missing tiles instead of spending 1000 years drawing tiny squares.

And the brushes have been the best thing I've found so far to follow the same kinda style as the Roman mosaics vs just throwing a grid pattern over a line drawing.

If anyone else has a mosaic brush they like, or another technique they use or have heard of, please let me know! <3

The other thing I've been researching is materials, which has turned out to be........a lot, but I will cover that NEXT wipsday ✌️

tags & hellos! (if you wanted to be added to this list, feel free to let me know in the replies!)

@brandnewcountrystar, @run-for-chamo-miles, @leithillustration

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a little bit of my Carry On rebind 🌈💖

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Thanks y'all for the tags! I loved seeing everyone's year wrapped! This year was so many things but here are a few things I did...

I started fanbinding:

I started rebinding books:

I learned how to make foiled art prints:

I read 77 books (45 new, 32 rereads)

I learned how to wallpaper

I built a canopy for over my bed

I went above and beyond for my Halloween costume

I started hanging out with a new friend, and an old friend

I spent five months trying to properly medicate my ADHD & depression (we're still not quite there with this one folks)

I wrote 100,185 words, though I didn't publish all of those

I did publish the following:

You know I love you still 11k, E, canon-compliant

One day. Five years. A peek into what it's like to love and be loved by Simon Snow.

I'm particularly proud of this one. I think about it a lot. The prompt requested an exploration of Simon's depression, and, as someone with depression, I put a lot of myself into it.

Candle in the Wind 5k, E, canon-compliant, pure smut

Baz and Simon try their hand at a bit of roleplay.

This one was incredibly fun to write. The prompt happened to exactly match a fic I had started writing months previous so it felt like destiny.

In truth 35k, M, Historical/Regency AU, in progress

The long absent Tyrannus Basilton makes a reappearance in society at the start of London's Social Season much to the thrill and torment of his former roommate, Simon Snow.

I updated this one last night. I love this fic. I've never worked on something so diligently, and over such a long period of time. It's some of the prettiest writing I've ever done.

I also completed every day of the Carry On Countdown!

There's more stuff but this post is already so long. I have lots of hope for next year and am looking forward to spending it with all of you 💝

I find you all incredibly inspiring and can't wait to see what we do next 💖🎊

@argumentativeantitheticalg, @arthurkko, @artsyunderstudy, @asocialpessimist

@bachusekart, @best--dress, @blackberrysummerblog, @bookish-bogwitch, @bookishbroadwayandblind

@carryonmylovelies, @confused-bi-queer, @cosmicalart, @emeryhall, @excalisbury

@facewithoutheart, @freclface, @greybazzy, @harrie-leithillustration, @hushed-chorus

@iamamythologicalcreature, @ic3-que3n, @ileadacharmedlife, @jyae23

@larkral, @lovelettersto-mars, @meanjeansjeans, @mooncello, @noblecorgi, @orange-peony

@probablily, @raenestee, @rimeswithpurple, @run-for-chamo-miles

@shrekgogurt, @sillyunicorn, @seducingavampire, @skee3000, @sleepyphobzz, @stitchyqueer

@talentpiper11, @terra-fae, @toc-the-scrambled, @the-beard-of-edward-teach

@thewholelemon, @tiarrrita, @valeffelees, @youarenevertooold

+ anyone else who wants to share what they've been working on 🧡