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daisywords · 1 year

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trade paperback >> hardcover rebind

Since I was trying this for the first time, I decided to use a book that I didn't really care about...so enter the copy of A Christmas Carol that I got from a "free books" shelf in my wanderings around the humanities building.

This was a lot of fun since I already had the text block ready and I just got to focus on doing fancy things to the cover! I covered the page edges with sharpie and then a layer of liquid graphite. Added endbands and cut the original cover to use as a hinge.

I used liquid graphite again to do the painting for the endpapers. The lil painting at the front is based on a woodcut illustration of Victorian London. Cut the window out of the cover board, which was a whole ordeal, and put a piece of plastic behind it, which I painted to look like frosted windowpanes.

Then I decided to stencil the title onto the spine, which was a whole thing (can't believe I cut letters out of paper with a scalpel—and I should have used a stiffer brush or something bc the paint kind of spread, but it was an experiment).

But overall I'm happy with how it turned out! Now I have a cute little book with annotations from the previous own but with a cover that's a lot less ugly (sorry)

process photos under the cut :)

Lots of deliberation on how I was going to get the endpapers glued down and still have my window holes, so I ended up gluing it, putting my phone flashlight behind it to to see the outlines, and then making light cuts to get the paper and not the plastic. I also had to paint the corners of the window holes to match the cloth since it didn't stretch enough to cover completely.

#adventures in bookbinding #bookbinding #rebinding #charles dickens #this was definitely the most experimental project I've done yet #now I want to rebind other old paperbacks I own!#except I'll probably have to do the spine differently for thicker books #this one's just a regular flatback #also can I just say how much I love liquid graphite it's such an underrated medium #wish I would have brought my smaller brush on the day I painted but I forgot and let me tell you I was suffering

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