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Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea

By Jules Verne

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Boy this was a lot of foiling, and my hand definitely hurt by the end of it. Despite my efforts, the hand foiling is quite patchy, but somehow aesthetically it kinda works?

I printed the pattern on inkjet canvas first, then I laid over it a printout of the leaf border pattern (originally designed by @alderdoodle). I used vellum paper so that I could see the cover underneath and line up the pattern. Then, once everything was secured with tape, I inserted green foil between the vellum and the cover. From there I traced the pattern by hand with a foil quill. Meanwhile, the spine was debossed first with a foil quill and then filled in with gold paint.

This is the biggest book I’ve ever tried to rebind, and I’ve learned that the weight of the text block is definitely something I need to consider more in the future for how I decide to construct the case. Even with the mull, the inner shoulders feel quite weak unfortunately. I should have either chosen stronger endpapers, or done more to reinforce the marbled paper I used, especially at the hinges to prevent the text block from sagging.

Apart from the leaf pattern, all other elements are from Canva.

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Flight by me!

The interior of this book was designed for me by @dashka12 in the Renegade Bindery typeset exchange this year. I'm absolutely tickled that they went all in on the planes and it just wouldn't be right without another one on the cover.

The cover fabric is a buckram I got from a fellow Renegade bookbinder who got it from an out of business bindery- it has a persistent smell of "academic library" but it's such a perfect army green I had to use it for this book.

The plane on the cover is, in fact, the model Obi flies in the story, a C-47. It's absolutely typical that I got the detail of the plane right and then goofed up my own AO3 handle. Thankfully it's me. I know who I am.

The plane does wrap all the way around to the back- I applied the HTV to the cloth before putting it on the boards so it would be continuous. There's no spine title, just wing.

The endpapers are a leather patterned scrapbook paper. The front hinge works great but something's a bit wonky with the back one - it pulls a bit weird, but everything opens and it's readable.

A couple of examples of the interior airplanes - I think they're entirely charming (look at the page numbers!) and I love my book.

Binderary 2025, book #2.

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BINDERARY STARTS TOMORROW. If you'd like to learn more about Bookbinding, whether a complete beginner or more advanced but wanting to learn some new skills.

@renegadeguild is hosting binding workshops during the month of february!

Binderary 2025: Week 1

In the Renegade Bindery Discord Server, we are once again running Binderary during the month of February. Attendance is free, and a link to the 18+ Discord Server can be found on our website.

Whether you’re new to the world of bookbinding or an aged veteran, join us for a month of binding fun! This event is all about community & learning, be it trying something new or refining existing skills.

All our workshops are run by members of our fanbinding community, and some of them are even on Tumblr!

Here’s the list of who’s running the week 1 workshops:

Specialized Typesetting in LaTeX: Celandine My Immortal and the History of Fan Studies: Parsley Typesetting in Google Docs: @sayornispress Introduction to Typography and Typesetting: @bearclubbooks Renegade Round-Up 2024!: @fanboundbooks, @robins-egg-bindery & @celestial-sphere-press You Shouldn't Have to Pay for that: Making Your Typesets Pretty For Free: @daemonluna Bookbinding Craft Along 1: Noodle

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2024 Renegade Bindery Bound Fic Exchange - Book 2

The second book I made for @zinder-fox was It's Time For Another Good Idea, Bad Idea by Haurvatat

I was inspired by a couple cookbooks when creating the design.

This is a Solo Leveling fic that features a less common pairing. Anyone that likes the novel's Jin Woo more than the webtoon or animes potrayal will enjoy this fic.

I also did custom French double core endbands for this fic. Here is attempt #2

Hope you enjoy the books @zinder-fox

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2024 Renegade Bindery Bound Fic Exchange - Book 1

This year I participated in the Bound fic exchange with @renegadeguild

I ending up binding and all i loved, i loved alone by @featherxs for @zinder-fox

It was a Bungou Stray Dogs fic which incorporated element of Edgar Allan Poes real life.

For the theme, I went with a Gothic style and made individually chapter titles.

For the end papers, I took quotes from the real Edgar Allan Poes writing and printed it out on black card stock and used some red toner activated foil

I tried a new skill and sowed on a French double core headband for the first time.

Also.painted the edges a dark red.

The cover design was made by me on Canva. All images used throughout the typeset were also found on Canva.

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Breakaway | Glacy

(ID in alt text.)

I had a blast participating once again in @pilesofnonsense's Rusty Quill Big Bang event as a bookbinder/artist! This year, I collaborated with Glacy on AO3 and bound their TMA fic Breakaway. It's an ice hockey AU with underlying spooks and horrors, and I had a lot of fun reading it and working with it! Definitely go check out their fic!!

An additional shout-out to @shadow0haven who designed my new bindery logo! You can see it on the back of the title page in the fifth picture, and I love how it looks in my books <3

More information about the bind and my process can be found beneath the cut:

For this bind, I decided to go hard on the hockey theme. The team mascot is a revenant, so I went with a title page and cover design styled after a hockey jersey. The cover is made entirely of bookcloth, with the different colors and details cut out of different colors of bookcloth that are then pieced together like a puzzle. I was pleasantly surprised with how well it turned out! It took a little bit of fiddling to figure out the correct cut settings on my Silhouette, as well as the level of detail I could achieve, but I love how the whole cover has a cloth texture like a jersey would.

The construction of this book was a bit of a challenge. Because I wanted to put grommets in the edges of the cover and thread a shoelace through them, so the spine looked like a hockey skate, doing a regular coptic stitch bind--where the covers are sewn onto the text block via holes punched in the cover board--would have interfered with the ability to freely manipulate the laces.

I eventually settled on a hybrid coptic-sewn board binding style. There is an additional folio of cardstock sewn onto the ends of the text block that the boards are then glued into, thus directly attaching the boards to the textblock and providing more structural stability. Usually, with sewn boards, a spine piece is then glued around the spine to cover up the exposed sewing; instead, I glued the bookcloth to the cover and then carefully cut slits in the cloth on the spine side and fed it in between the lines of sewing. It worked out incredibly well, creating the illusion of an open-spine coptic-stitch book without actually stitching on the chipboard itself; I wish I'd had the foresigh to take process pictures.

After that, it was relatively simple to punch holes for the grommets, insert them, and then thread the laces through. Next time, I would use a thinner chipboard and punch the holes further from the spine to allow the cover boards to close more flatly, but overall, I'm very happy with how the various design elements came together! The shoelace is removable and/or adjustable if desired as well.

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Do you sell any of your crafted books? I'm looking at Jail Bait.

Hello!

No I do not. All books are made for personal use.

As a sidenote - selling fanfiction or any book you did not author yourself (including copyrighted characters) is illegal.

Gifting is fine. Personally I love gifting books, but usually to the authors themselves. Bookbinding isn't as scary as it seems and a book can be made within a budget, no fancy tools needed.

There are tons of resources out there, and a discord community Renegade Bindery @renegadeguild that has a wealth of knowledge for beginners!

If you do decide to try it out, feel free to message me with any questions or tips. I'm always glad to help out.

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Let Them Talk by @manic-intent

My bind of the Let them Talk Series

This is one of the fics that I find myself re-reading very often. I'm usually a Cherik fan but Logan/Charles work SOOO well in this.

The typeset for this was pretty simple but it works for the vibe and setting of the fic.

I even included the first mini fill in for the prompt as a sort of prologue.

There also a cute tony/Steve fic included in the series.

As always, this was bound for personal use.

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25 Free Typesets!

New achievement unlocked! I've finished my 25th public domain typeset, and you can find all 25 unimposed pdfs for FREE here! (Personal use only! Use these to read, bind, burn, or ignore at your pleasure!) I'm so excited to post this collage of all the title pages I've done for pd texts thus far. I started getting into typesetting earlier this year, and that journey started with googling "what is typesetting???" 😅😆. Since then, it's been fun exploring literature and the designs surrounding text. Anyway, thank you to everyone who's stopped by this blog! It's meant a lot to me, whether you liked/reblogged/followed, or just took a look!

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Renegade Loves Fic (Writers) Stats 2024

Fanfiction Writers Appreciation Day or FFWAD (August 21st) is an annual appreciation of fanfiction writers and the gifts that they give to fandom. To show our appreciation, we ran a binding event where binders on our Renegade Discord server chose a fic to make a physical copy of. This was all to say thank you to the author for the work that they put into making it.

Here’s onto the stats for this year’s event!

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An Iron Blood Tale: Iron and Gold

An Iron Blood Tale: Iron and Gold by @experi-sketches

My second bind for (Fan) Fic Writer Appreciation Day.

This fic is ridiculously good and my favorite story that i found last year.

The whole inspiration for this book was inspired by one particular scene from the fic.

For the custom endpapers, i foiled on the tagline(theme?) of the fic, onto some art that matched the overall design elements.

I had a lot of fun working on the typeset for this - though it took me way to long to sit down and complete. I had a pretty clear vision for it, until i completely did a 180 and changed my mind lol. Which I'm glad i did as this typeset came out so well.

The story title pages and map - I LOVE when books have maps in the beginning so i was super excited to format the map.

Each chapter had a title, but I decided to keep the chapter images the same and to go with the cover design.

Threads, connectivity, and intertwining play a big role in this fic and I tried to incorporate the idea as much as possible.

I'm very happy with how this book turned out, especially the htv layering. Quite surprised on how smoothly it went on the first time tbh.

This bind was done as part of @renegadeguild Renegade Loves Fic(Writers), as a way to show appreciation to all the fic writers out there that share your amazing stories with us, by sending out a copy to them.

Thank you @experi-sketches for this lovely fic <3

HAPPY (FAN) FIC WRITERS APPRECIATION DAY

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The Golden Bird: Part 2

The Golden Bird: Part II by @pierrotwrites-hc

For (Fan) Fic Writer Appreciate Day (August 21st) I decided to bind The Golden Bird: Part 2, the second part of one of my absolute favorite fics EVER.

I tried to match the same style I did in my previous bind of Part 1 of the series, but still making it unique in itself.

The custom end papers were made from the painting Ganymede by Gabriel Ferrier with a book quote (one of multiple quotes i used in this bind as I couldn't pick just one since the prose in this story is so beautiful)

Foiled title pages because I love foil and have a lot :)

For the typeset itself, it is very similar to the one i did for part 1, except included some drop caps

Now for probably my favorite part of this bind - THE ART!

@thedaydreamingcynic has created some of the most beautiful art for the TGB and they were kind enough to let me include some of them in this bind.

The art was printed on transparent film and overlaid in the book with thin double-sided crafting tape.

Truly, all their art is stunning.

This bind was done as part of @renegadeguild Renegade Loves Fic(Writers), as a way to show appreciation to all the fic writers out there that share your amazing stories with us, by sending out a copy.

Thank you @pierrotwrites-hc for creating such an amazing story <3

HAPPY (FAN) FIC WRITERS APPRECIATION DAY

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do you have any fics on your to-bind list?

Hi Anon,

Short answer - YES a lot.

Longer Answer - I have 4 works in progess all in some stage as im going through a bit of a creative rut, where i don't like any of my design ideas. But can't tell if they truly suck or if it's just creative imposter syndrome 😅

In terms of a to-do list nothing concrete as I go more based on if I have clear design idea. I have some Original fic i want to get to as well as some cherik fanfic.

March has been kinda a wash as i did a lot of traveling and moved but more binding to come in April!

Thanks for the Ask 😊

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reblog if you’ve read fanfictions that are more professional, better written than some actual novels. I’m trying to see something

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Ashfae - Selected Works

As I was working on Binderary, I saw that @Ashfae had had a birthday and since she's absolutely amazing, I made a collection of her short stories, to go along with a gift copy of @LauraSharpiro's Leaves of Grass. Ashfae's works are all quite lovely, check them out!

Featured stories: What Comes From Your Hand, Saint Aziraphale and Oi-Who-Are-You-Calling-A-Dragon, Aziraphale and Crowley are Stopping Armageddon, What Custom Strictly Divided, In(effable) Dulci Jubilo, Give Me Your Illusions, The Other Side of the Sky, Sweat, Going Up

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💥Binderary Bind # 3 💥

A collection of 15 stories by @greygerbil.( Highly HIGHLY recommend their fics)

For the book title, I chose The Shield,The Spear, The Sword and chose another 14 of their stories (it was a struggle not to include all of them but i got tired of typesetting 😅)

I made individual title pages for all of them (pic doesnt include all)

I did keep the drop caps the same in every story as well as the same line break image (a cute little shield,spear, sword combo i made on canva) to add continuity.

I tried a couple new techniques this bind.

Did my first ever rounded spine as well as some (easy and fake) raised bands. This was heavily inspired by those old traditional leather bound books.

Progess pic before the faux leather.