#gauffered edge

[zhalfirin]

Midgard - W. and H. Hohlbein

Many thanks to Karitas for allowing me to use and adapt her wonderful art of 'Hati & Sköll' for my cover design.

inner book mass produced paper back of Midgard bugra bütten paper, endpapers gilded leather, endbands acrylic paint, coloured edge leaf gold (ducate double gold 23 carat), gilded edge

case binders board 1,5mm, cover cardboard, spine stiffener Satogami paper, cover material gold and silver tooling on the covers

[zhalfirin-binds]

Dry run on a edge decor I’ll be trying. 

I have a gilded book edge that looks, well, patchy (I re-did it a couple of times and by now I blame the paper quality XD). Still there’s a way to sort of salvage this by adding a pattern to the book edge so I’m going to gauffer it. I hope the irregular pattern will cover up the patchy gilding and make it look nice anyway.

I did not prepare the paper here in any way though so there are bumps in it and apparently doing this on different, seperatly bound blocks of paper is not a good idea either, but I just wanted to see if the pattern works out for me (it does)

[zhalfirin]

Winnie-the-Pooh - A.A. Milne with decorations by Ernest H. Shepard

I got the chance to bind this wonderful typeset by @mourningmountainsbindery Many thanks for that!

Materials used

case

binders board (3mm) book cloth (uncoated) decorations, laser printed recessed paper onlay title, hot stamped

inner book

paper: Schleipen Fly 05 (115gsm) endpapers: marbled paper by @renato-crepaldi endbands: Gütermann button hole silk edge decoration: gauffered egge with acrylic paint, waxed and polished

format: 11,5cm x 15cm