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His Dark Materials series all rebound. All three books were purchased second hand and rebound in hand-dyed blue leather with gold foiled pages and gold embossing. The Golden Compass book is even signed by Philip Pullman himself!

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Today I tried my hand at bookbinding! It was the first time I did anything like this but I had some tools and things laying around from leather work and some other crafts that I’ve tried or still do (leather work is fun and I still do that one for example but knitting and crocheting is something that I’ve dropped but I might pick those back up sometime in the future).

I followed a YouTube tutorial that I saw someone post on Tumblr a bit ago because I honestly had no idea how to start and it made it very easy to just start!

I started off with folding the paper I wanted to use. I’d picked some standard printing paper and some thick black aquarel paper and folded them all in half. When I folded them all I stacked them into signatures of 4 and put in the holes I’d use to sew it all together.

After I put in all the holes I started sewing together all the signatures according to the instructions in the video. It was not as hard as I thought it would be, I for some reason expected it to be a lot harder than it actually was, but it still took some time to sew all 8 signatures together.

When that was done I had to press the signatures together and glue the back together. Because I didn’t have a book press I had to improvise and grabbed two heavy books, this worked but barely.

Because it only barely worked I tried to make a makeshift book press with some stuff that was laying around the house, some scrap wood and some glue clamps, which worked a lot better!

After the glue had dried I put in a ribbon and put on an end and start page for some extra strength and put it back in the makeshift press.

After some more drying I put on some backing paper and discovered that the paper was all a bit not too great looking. The tutorial I was watching advised to cut off a bit of the side to make it flat. I found it to be not flat enough after I cut it so I also went at it with some sandpaper to get it a bit flatter.

After all this I now have a fun new notebook to write and draw stuff in and a new skill I can use to make gifts for my friends that I’m going to use a lot! (I love giving my friends handmade gifts, even more so if it’s a handmade photo book with fun foto’s of them!)

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Hello and welcome to my rabbit hole of hobbies! I get into way too many hobbies and with twitter slowly dying a painful death because of a certain billionaire I decided to just pull the trigger and finally make a tumblr blog to put all my future project on!

I’ve thought about it before but it’s just a lot easier to make a post about a project when I don’t have to think about a character limit and can put in pictures when I want them instead of at the end of a post! So here we go!

You can expect loads of different hobbies here, from 3D printing to leather working, and I’m mediocre at all of them! I try though and that’s what matters!!! Right? Right?????

Anyways I hope you enjoy your stay and I hope that I don’t forget to keep this updated!