The Beaky Binders

Hi, I am Aasia. A self-taught book binding artist who enjoys making journals/notebooks and covering them with my own hand-marbled fabrics. If you would like to check out my work, then please see my Etsy or my website Etsy: https://thebeakybinders.etsy.com Website: www.thebeakybinders.co.uk

[siobhantthomas]

Watercolour notebook

A small Japanese stab bound notebook, with watercolour paper and velvet cover.

[thebeakybinders]

Beautiful 🤩

[thebeautifulbook]

BOOK OF PSALMS (London: 1641)

source

[pixel-makes-art]

I realized I never posted the stuff from the book binding class I had last semester. So here’s a bunch of books I made!

[prinz-myshkin]

Bothersome beast, comforting friend

[thebeakybinders]

Fantastic photo shoot day! Saw a kingfisher for the first time and it even came and sat in front of us for about 40minutes catching fish. Taken on a canon eos 7 with a 600mm lens.

[thebeakybinders]

Ever wondered what one side of a sewing machine looks like? I didn’t, it would be interesting if it was working!!!!

[thebeakybinders]

New items on my Etsy! Even if I never sell one. They are so fun to make and look super cute with keys. Make because you want to, not because you are pressured to succeed.

Have a great day!

[teleportbooks]

Bookbinding: The Imperial Uncle by Da Feng Gua Guo

This is the first of two novels I bound for @spockandawe for a cnovel bookbinding exchange. The Imperial Uncle is pretty short (the Peach Flower House edition is a single volume) and I bound it in two quarto volumes with a brocade bookcloth cover and a bamboo strip spine. The pages are sewn directly to the string tying the spine together. The slipcase is covered with the same brocade bookcloth and decorated with satin cord.

The text is set in Goudy Bookletter 1911, with decorative initials and other decorative elements also by Goudy.

[optionalplane]

lalala i love the scientists and medics

[sheishine]

Ancient Sea Creature Diorama - Anomalocaris (Cambrian Period).

古代海洋生物ジオラマ - アノマロカリス (カンブリア紀)。

[thebeakybinders]

All finished, just needs an iron then it can go onto a coin purse. I do feel a blue would have been nice on the background but nvm

[thebeakybinders]

My newest embroidery project…

I really wanted to experiment with beads as they give it definition without taking away from the thread colours.

I chose a random photo from Pinterest- so I take no credit for the drawing and I will adapt the bottom and make it my own, but the basic shape is coming together!!

[theinternetarchive]

embroidered and beaded dress borders, french c. 1800s.

[fairytaleprincessart]

[kateammann]

Little mossy friends 🥰🌿🍄

[sheishine]

Anatomical Heart and Japanese Eel (2024).

解剖心臓と鰻 (2024)。

[crookedbranchbooks]

Amber Skies by @cryptotheism

June 12, 2025

Full cloth case binding with paper overlay and design in heat transfer vinyl.

I followed Amber Skies when it was being updated weekly, and read the latter half of it live. Even though I hadn't reread it in since, so much of the worldbuilding and the imagery stuck with me. So when I started thinking about internet-published texts to bind, Amber Skies was one of the first things to come to mind. Almost all of the styling of this book stems from me finding the black and white geometric patterned paper in paper source. It defined the "black and white with yellow accents" color scheme, and inspired the maze motif in the title page and chapter headers. The "maze" is meant to evoke the complex, confusing, and often deadly shafts and halls of Teleth Thadeyn, and the front page design is roughly the shape I imagined the megacity to be (although I would not be shocked to learn that I'm off base there, Heaven being at the top of a spire is a fun visual but not structurally sound). The yellow accents on the cover are all in a handwritten/hand-drawn style, meant to contrast against the stark black and white lines, representative of all of the people (and creatures) that have passed through Teleth Thadeyn and made their home their long after the death of the architects. The symbol on the back is the shaft-diver sign for danger, as described by Kali: "an inverted triangle with a cross through it."

Materials: covers - 2 mm grey board spine stiffener - paperboard covering material - white linen bookcloth overlay - screenprinted mulberry paper with geometric design vinyl - siser easyweed yellow vinyl

endpapers - yellow fine paper with gold printing endbands - faux double core french endband, with cotton embroidery floss edge painting - yellow and orange acryllic paint textblock paper - Church bookbinding paper, 20lb, cream, 8.5x11

Typeset: Designed in Scribus. The body font is Libertinus Serif, headings are in SaaSeriesDDOT. Maze images from Adobe Stock.

Cover Design: Designed in Photopea. Font is Permanent Marker.

dimensions: 5.5"x8.5"