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My first REALLY tiny book, a bind of Four of Swords. A sextodecimo! This lil guy is about 3" x 2 1/4" and is bound with actual cards from the miniature edition RWS deck. Because of the fun tarot imagery I'd been wanting to bind this one, but it's so short, just about 5000 words, so it had to go really little :3
Printed on pop-tone white from French, spine and sword detail done with HTV. I printed the main narrative in black and the flashbacks in blue, for visual separation, and the endpapers are of artwork done for this fic by the incredible @sandwichartistdatzu !!
#book binding#bookbinding#ficbinding#fic binding#fanbinding#fan binding#handbinding#hand binding#tarot#tiny book
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Folklore Fish
Three miniature books inspired by folktales involving fish. Full semi-limp bindings in salmon parchment made by the binder (me), sewn on salmon parchment tapes, red-orange Lynweave tipped endsheets.
Dragon Gate (Chinese): Rough edge gilding on three sides, surface gilding
Salmon Boy (Haida-Tlingit-Tsimshian): Marbled top edge, extra tapes woven across the cover, copper tooling
Salmon of Wisdom (Irish): Nine salmon parchment sewing tapes tanned in hazelnut shells and plaited into the covers
#my folklore fish books! soon to be on exhibit!#bookbinding#salmon#books#handbound books#hand binding
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The Interrogation by magdaliny
51,263 words | 280 pages
Completed August 20, 2023
This story is sweet and haunting and cathartic and so many moments have stayed with me since I first read it. It was a joy to typeset and bind <3 Even when the HTV fought me and had to be applied twice.
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It’s Fine Press Friday!
Today we’re taking a deep dive into Songs for Gaia, a slim edition of poetry by Gary Snyder (b. 1930). This understated, beautifully-crafted letterpress volume was printed in 1979 for Kah Tai Alliance at Copper Canyon in Port Townsend, WA, a fine press dedicated solely to poetry since its founding in 1972, and was handbound by poet and bookbinder Samuel Green. It features woodblock illustrations by poet and printmaker Michael Corr (b. 1940), who learned his craft while living in Kyoto from block printer and illustrator Takeji Asano (1900-1999). Asano was a notable figure in Japan’s Sōsaku-hanga woodblock printing movement. The book is quarter bound in cloth with a cover marbled in a finely executed combed feather pattern, a touch that lends a hint of psychedelia to its otherwise traditional aesthetics. It was released in a limited edition of 300 copies.
Snyder, who is popularly known for his time amongst and spiritualist influence on the Beat poets and the counterculture of their generation (along with Kerouac’s portrayal of him as Japhy Ryder in the 1958 novel The Dharma Bums) spent 13 years in Japan (1956-1968) studying Zen Buddhism, forestry, and ecology. A scholar of Asian languages versed in cultural anthropology, he also studied calligraphy with accomplished calligrapher and seal carver Charles Leong during his time at Reed College. Snyder’s calligraphic signature graces the half-title page of this edition.
This modest yet potent edition of Songs for Gaia is a fitting form for the work of a poet whom writer Bob Steuding once characterized as cultivating an “accessible” style and “a new kind of poetry that is direct, concrete, non-Romantic and ecological.” As Snyder wrote of his own work in A Controversy of Poets, “I try to hold both history and wilderness in mind, that my poems may approach the true measure of things and stand against the unbalance and ignorance of our times.”
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-Ana, Special Collections Graduate Fieldworker
#Fine Press Friday#fine press fridays#marbling#Gary Snyder#poetry#Copper Canyon Press#Songs for Gaia#Samuel Green#Michael Corr#woodblock illustration#woodblock#letterpress#fine press#feather pattern marbling#UWM Special Collections#handbound book#hand binding#Ana
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Here's a little project that I made to keep myself busy for a little while.
It's The Tale of Two Bad Mice, by Beatrix Potter (text and illustrations) - a delicious children's classic.
My favourite part was definitely embroidering the spine because it made me fall in love with embroidery all over again. I need to do this more often!
Overall, it's far from being perfect (I even forgot the headbands 🤦🏻♀️), but i think I still really love it.
#bookbinding#hand binding#printmaking#monotype#monoprint#handmade#sketchbook#handmade sketchbook#own#coptic stitch
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From the LGBTQ Iowa Archives and Library, a Queer archives, library and community center, located in Iowa!
Help support the work of the LGBTQ Iowa Archives & Library by becoming a Friend of LIAL. With an annual or monthly donation, you will help support our free programming, archival endeavors, and our library full of trans and queer books that cannot be banned by the state legislature. As a trans and queer volunteer-run organization, LIAL depends on community support to continue our mission of preserving and sharing Iowa's LGBTQ history.
If you become a Friend of LIAL before February 15th, you will also receive a handmade notebook by India Johnson!
Learn more about us here:
Join or donate here! https://donorbox.org/friends-of-lial
#lgbtq#queer#iowa#midwest#hand binding#book binding#book banning#fight book banning#trans pride#support queer artists#archives#library#queer organization#volunteer organization#read queer all year#gay#lesbian#gay pride
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A year in my bindery.
As far as I remember: 7 fics bound. 6 for me, one for the author [plus a rebound one, it was just too awful to stay as I originally made it]. 15 Notebooks. 3 original books. 4 rebind books.
I'm proud of how much progress I'd made during 2023. I'm still far from skilled, but I moved from a fic I didn't feel good enough to share with the author [If the sun goes down] to my latest fic which I love. Binding books it's frustrating at times, but also it's a craft that allowed you to see concrete evidence of your progress.
#fanbinding#fan art#ficbinding#ficbook#bookbinding#renegade bindery#fic binding#fic binders#fanbind#hand binding#2023
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currently fighting the daily urge to learn how to hand bind books just to be able to touch my fav fics even though i’m not crafty or artistically gifted whatsoever
#someone help#marauders fandom#hand binding#regulus arcturus black#marauders era#the marauders#marauders fic#wolfstar#starchaser#jegulus#remus#remus lupin
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Like pocket-sized books?
I hand bind blank books and am doing a sale for American Shopping Weekend!
Use code #SHOLS2022 for 25% off your order!
For the books pictured and the rest of my stock of pocket-sized books, go here: https://www.thebookroadie.com/product-category/pocket-size/
#pocket book#pocket sized book#bookbinding#hand binding#blank books#notebooks#journal#travel journal
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Has anyone handbound a short work of fanfiction? Im talking 10k words. I want to print one that I like out and use saddle stitch, but I don’t want a lot of page drift. Anyone have experience?
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A little book repair and a box for first edition of czech tranlastion of Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse (published in 1931).
(pictures of process below)
The book has been rebound before and held together pretty well. So I just replaced spine of covers (the old one was in terrible shape), added endbands and reinforced the spine of text block. Also because of removal of covers during process I had to replace endpapers. The paper used on covers in original rebinding was torn at some places, so I just glued it back to place and left it as it is becasue I think old books should look old. I only did what I deemed necessary to make the book last another few decades. Because of that I created box with round upper and lower front edges to keep it safe.
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An au fic that is near and dear to my heart, and one that spawned hundreds of thousands of words of follow-up, companion pieces, aus, and so on. AKA the one where I fixed canon by turning a major character into a zombie.
Lot of firsts on this bind -- first time using a guillotine for the edges, first time including a bookmark, and first time using heat transfer vinyl, for the lettering and bloodstains on the cover. For a first attempt, not awful; the letters came out a little raggedy but I decided to just roll with it since this is, thematically, supposed to be a bloodied and ratty relic of an apocalypse. And I FUCKING LOVE how the blood splattered page edges turned out.
Technical details under the cut.
Body text is Kozuka Mincho Pro R on French fleece white parchtone; titles are Haettenschweiler; chapter headers are Traveling Typewriter; chapter caps and Tshirt text are You Murderer BB. Blood splatters from a font called simply "splatter".
End papers are some kind of scrapbook paper from a "blood splatter" pack I found online somewhere. Bookcloth is generic BbH. Vinyl is Siser Metal HTV, cut with cricut, that I jacked up by using an iron instead of a proper heat press. Edge splatter with mix of liquitex naphol red light and FW Pearlescent black acrylic inks.
I think that's everything. Most ambitious bind I've done and one of the ones I'm happiest with in terms of overall presentation.
#book binding#bookbinding#fan binding#fanbinding#fic binding#ficbinding#hand binding#handbinding#book arts#I'm still very much a newbie at this ok#so don't be too harsh about my messed up vinyl#watchmen zverse
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Atlantic Salmon Population Data in New England Rivers
The book is a salmon parchment-bound collection of data tables regarding salmon populations and management in New England rivers. Sewn onto the cover with fishing line are pieces of salmon parchment dyed in onion skins and stamped with the names of the data tables used. The edges are decorated in graphite, which adds to the shiny fishiness of the design. The endsheets are handmade paper with bits of plant material, which I thought evoked the feeling of standing in a river.
All of the salmon parchment used was made by me, the binder, out of skins procured from a local sushi shop.
#bookbinding#hand binding#salmon parchment#atlantic salmon population data book#book art#fish parchment#fish parchment books#this took a long time to do#normally you shouldn’t do graphite on all edges because it can smudge off when you’re turning the pages#but this is ART so it’s okay
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And is there Honey Still for Tea? by Jay Tryfanstone w/ Art by Dualbunny
19,090 words | 202 pages
Completed December 30, 2022
Completely a bonus that my fingernail polish matched this :D
Ever since I learned about fanbinding, I knew I'd have to bind this. It's such an unlikely, macabre little gem about Pooh & friends learning about the horrors of war, told in the style of A. A. Milne, with one incredible Pooh-like companion illustration. I had a great time using this Pooh font to match.
The cover papers are hand-marbled by me, and the endpapers are too! The latter was made at the end of a marbling session when I was draining the carrageenan and couldn't resist doing one pull of the fantastic colors left in the vat. You can see the angle at which the tank was draining :) When I saw the result I knew it was perfect for this fic.
#bookbinding#hand binding#fanbinding#winnie the pooh#and is there honey still for tea#dualbunny#jay tryfanstone#2022#octavo#fanfiction
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I finished my first booke!
It was a great learning experience (despite hecking up a few times), definitely some things I'll do differently in the future:
Use thicker backing board, you can see this ended up bowing a bit
Properly prepare my cover fabric by backing it with paper first, lol
Maybe not try to do the last signature/cover stitching while my idiot cat-son is screaming about imminent dinner for half an hour straight. I could not hear myself think, much less stay consistent with my stitching
But! It absolutely serves its purpose, which is to be a little practice sketchbook for watercolor and gouache tests. It lies nice and flat, and with what I learned here I feel comfortable making a bigger version (pages double the size of these).
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This was my first experience with sewn board binding.
It's been my favourite ever since i first learned about it, but it took me a while to figure it out - and i'm so glad i did! i absolutely love how it opens flat without loosing its shape, and how you can mix and match covers and spines.
This has been on my shelf for over a month now because I've been too scared of using it but the time has finally come!
#bookbinding#handmade#handmade sketchbook#hand binding#sketchbook#own#coptic stitch#french link stitch#hard cover#book#paper#artesanal
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