Text Block Dance Party: Tension. Demonstration of how loose I stitch on tapes when planning on backing, using the 1/3 page size w/ 3 folio per signature imposition. It can actually move further but this shows as far as it’ll go at ‘rest’ w/o active pressure being applied. ~440 pages w/ thread changes around the 70 & 250 page marks.
Carmilla - Robert Sheridan Le Fanu
Full vellum Bradel binding with slipcase
Book art - Alphonse Mucha
Many thanks @notwhelmedyet for inspiring me towards Mucha for bookart
Materials used:
case
board - museumsboard, white
spine stiffener - cardboard
gathering the case and laser printed cover decoration - white paper
cover material - calf parchment
inner book
text block paper - Schleipen fly 05, 115gsm
endpapers - Chiyogami paper and Hahnemühle Ingres Bütten paper
sewing material - linnen thread (flax)
endbands - buttonhole silk (Gütermann)
edge finish - head and foot edge polished
Font's used
Titel font - Boecklin's universe
Chapter title, page count and drop caps - Amarante
text body - Georgia
Slipcase
case construction - grey board (1,5 and 1mm)
covering materials - Tsumugi paper, Hahnemühle Ingres Bütten paper, Chiyogami paper
Wrote into my first Field Notes yesterday night! Numbered 2.5 since I'm still using the little numbered 2 book I stitched together.
I just can't stop fondling the paper and flipping the empty pages..! Beautiful gorgeous, really tempted to bite into the corner and taste, but I am not a teething baby.
Thanks to Michiganology for having the Harvest edition in stock, I'll have to drive up some day. They had a cool magnet I couldn't resist. $2 trout? $2 stamp? Shrug. I liked the drawing so I drew it too.
Used my cold and rainy day of PTO to finish up a laced limp paper binding I've been sitting on for a while. This is a non-adhesive binding (except for the spine lol) and it's so satisfying when it finally comes together in the last step. I used scrap papers left over from a project in April so I'm glad to finally get this off my desk!
What you need: bad book, a utility knife/box cutter. That's it!
A full guide below!
Strip the book!
Once it's naked, take a look! I've marked where the bookboard is attached to the spine. This is where you cut!
Do both sides and voila! Boards!
You can trim these to fit whatever size you need later - for now, set them aside! We're gonna get the headbands!
Delectable...hidden...Not for long!
You can very easily peel the spine back as seen here - and then you can peel the headband off.
Sometimes the glue makes it a bit tricky (as seen here) - just use your utiliknife!
Do both sides... and that's it!
With the remaining text block, it varies on if your city can recycle it. However, it's also good for paper mache! Pulp! Blackout poetry! Discard paper! Compost! Anything you'd like to do - have fun!