#bookbinding? kinda

[alienswearsunglasses]

My favourite paper doesn't come in a notebook form so i made myself one. The cover is made with washable paper, so it won't stain easily and will weather nicely. I just joined each four pieces of paper on a sewing machine and then threaded them through metal eyelets on the cover, so i can just exchange it once i use it all up.

[chaoticbindery]

Here's Looking at You Kid by MesserMoon @sophsicle

Art by @upthehillart

[roseserpentpress]

Another Bonhoeffer book, for my father for father days, which I finished were last summer but neglected to post until now, whoops. The typesetting was based off the version found in the Internet Archives, and the cover design based off of one of the early editions, except I made the green a lot darker and the lettering gold so in all... Not that similar to that edition ahaha. This shade of green seems to dislike being photographed, but I've done my best to represent it. It's certainly been interesting to use cloth instead of paper, which I'm more used to using, and in the process of typesetting I learned how to use drop caps which I am now very keen on, as well as page footnotes. The end papers are also a homage to the other Bonhoeffer book I've bound for my father, which has the same end papers.

[the-average-procrastinator]

Redid the cover of a used copy of “1984” and had fun with the design :)

[maniacalshen]

I hand-bound a transcript of the Xena: Warrior Princess episode "Many Happy Returns" and hand-embroidered covers for it. Both designs are my own, one Xena-themed, one Gabrielle-themed.

Definitely a learning experience that pushed my bookbinding AND embroidering abilities!

[getfuckedblr]

welcome to my revamped fanfic drive! i haven’t printed out all of them yet, so no promises that there aren’t any mistakes i haven’t caught yet. but yeah happy binding!

*just as a note, these are pdf’s that are saved in signature order. so all you have to do is print it out (flip on short edge) and then count out the signatures (or, find the center of the signature. it will have two pages numerically next to each other. ie 12 and 13 on the left and right would be the center, and everything else folds out from it). most of them are 40 page signatures, but a few are smaller.

included fics:

namesake necklace by @wiceba

secret language of plants by @llendrinall

a big black sky by alexmeg

dripping fingers by May_May_o_o

HEX series by MaidenMotherCrone (pics of this finished bind coming soon)

scaredy cat by gallaplacidia

teenage wasteland by gallaplacidia

adventures of a suicidal gentleman by gallaplacidia

entire gallaplacidia drarry collection (quarto size)

The Foxhole Court Extras (all of the extra content from Nora’s ask)

Onyx series by Lomonaaeren (quarto)

All the young dudes by ms.kingbean89

i’ll update the list as i add more fics:)

[evadingreallife]

The bookbinding project is done!

The process:

[radiantroach]

Usually my Big Art Project Of The Month is a drawing of some sort. But for October I decided to branch out and try my hand at book binding.

For this I chose not just my favorite favfic, but my favorite peices of written lit ever. Dirty Laundry by @popatochisssp

Honestly, I had a lot of fun with the formatting and changing the fonts. Sure, it was tedious at times. (Transferring the pdf to word messed up the formatting in places) And it was a great excuse to reread the fic all over again.

I really enjoyed this project. There was something really relaxing about sewing the signatures together. I don't think this will be my last time bookbinding.

[daisywords]

the good news: finally started* my new bookbinding project (making a sketchbook for a birthday present for my brother—I think I'm going to do some variant of a sewn boards binding if I can find some kind of card with the right weight. thinking of doing some kind of loz design or at least a sword on the cover? also I found the scraps of gold leaf I scavenged from the trash this has so much potential)

the bad news: it's 1 am and the high of starting something is making me. not tired

*folded the signatures and that's all

[simply-sithel]

Started late May, finally finished five months later- Blue Book Head.

I've done a number of book heads before and am always trying to improve the idea/process. This one was inspired by shroompunke over on the Renegade Discord introducing me to how easy/accessible "flocking" is and @feefal's general awesome anatomy of her strange headed folks.

My sculpting is pretty weak and I know I don't like the look of bald (or painted) clay for these creations but the flocking definitely helped soften some of the 'meh' my results come with. Thankfully the book turned out pretty nice and the size/feeling in the hand is what I wanted. Not fond of the tummy but the tush and general pose are pleasing enough- I put weights in its feetsies to help keep 'em standing!

Easier to make than the fabric-bodied book heads but also less interesting to play with. Happy to have it be done, am trying to lean into the joy of it to motivate the completion of my second Little Prince Fox Head that has been sitting on a shelf for years now.

Need to visit the fishing supply store to pick up more weights... there was a seated version of this fellow I sketched out and might now attempt to tackle given this "success"- there are a couple bald patches on the flocking but they're not that bad and it was my first time! And I've a lot of that blue fluff left! Always a strange balance between "anthropomorphic" and "functional"-- seated, clutching a pen might be the sweet spot... gotta' start and finish the project to find out tho!

[p.s. - if anyone has any stop-motion advice (supplies and/or software) I'd be keen to hear it. Am currently using a Nikon camera & https://ezgif.com/]

[ezkezpez]

Photo from my instagram story concerning my first attempt at rebinding!!!

[sosnastudios]

and here’s the box they go in

i used duo cloth and i hot stamped the label on salmon parchment i made

[pastafossa]

Would you consider having TRT published for people to have a physical copy? I know you said you were thinking about publishing a version of it

I've looked into it! So far as I can tell, I cannot legally publish TRT as is to sell to you because of The Great And All-Seeing Mouse's copyright. I even looked into selling at cost - basically you paying me only the amount required to actually make it (aka: no profit for me), but that seems to be a very risky grey area. I know other fics have done it like Fallout Equestria but those companies are a little more friendly than The Noble And Standing Over My Shoulder Mouse who is aggressively protective of his copyright even when you're not making money.

What I can do:

I can publish what amounts to an AU of TRT in which all canon references have either been removed (Daredevil plotlines) or altered (Matt's appearance, name, and profession, though I'd keep his personality), and only my original elements (TRT-unique plotline) and characters (Jane, Ciro, Eli, Maya, Daniel, etc) remain. This is the generally accepted way to publish your fanfic, and if I self-publish (tentative plan), I can leave TRT up if I understand the legality correctly. My plan's also going to be to change enough of the original plotline that there are surprises for any TRT readers (as well as giving me additional distance between the fic and the AU so no one can argue I'm 'using' the fic to make money on my book). This is going to take a while, though, since there's a lot to change between pronouns, the plot, the characters, and themes.

I can allow you to create your own physical copy. There are book printers who create individual books for people, and since you would be paying and I wouldn't be making any money, this would be legal! This is likely the easiest way to get a hard copy of the original TRT!

You can also bookbind it yourself without having to go to a book printer at all! There are some excellent guides to bookbinding online, and I've had multiple requests from readers who wanted to bookbind a copy for their own shelf, which I'm totally ok with! Again, as long as it's not being sold you have my permission to do this!

Sadly as far as I know, those are the only three ways you can get a TRT-Original or TRT-AU as a hard copy. Honestly if I had the money, I'd just order a bunch of hard copies and give them away to readers for free. When TRT is eventually done, I do plan to have a hard copy printed for myself (or maybe bookbound, not sure) and have tentative plans to buy a few extra to give away as a raffle thing. But unfortunately, I can't afford to do that on a wider scale.

[arty-angel-things]

It's finally done!! My first bookbinding project!

I got the idea when I saw "Turning Fanfiction into the Hardcover Book it Deserves" by Jess Less on youtube. I used several other videos as cross-reference for instructions but this one really inspired me and I wanted to do it myself!

Around this time, I had started to reread one Valley Of Serenity by @lnterjection aloud to my mom. I really loved this fanfiction and I thought it deserved it, so here it is!

I got the map originally from the end of chapter 60 where I then took a map of Europe and then edited it till it looked about right.

Overall it's not perfect, but I'm really happy with it! The pleather got a little worn and the heat-transfer vinyl gave plenty of trouble too. I kinda like it though, makes it feel almost like it was made in the same setting as the book.

There is one straight-up mistake though. I wonder if anyone will notice. I'll give ya a hint, it's on the front cover!

[goonlalagoon]

January fanbinding - What the butterflies said

Set myself a 2023 challenge to do a bookbinding project each month for an "actual book", i.e. something with written content rather than blank paper (or where I've made the content, as i partly want to make myself figure out formatting and dealing with an externally defined length). Also trying to use different styles of binding, so some added fun there figuring out what works for each!

I've just finished a reread of the Young Wizards books, so for my first project & pamphlet bind went with a YW fic, the wonderfully heartbreaking 'what the butterflies said' by @sunrisenebula

[stoertebeker]

Bookbinding updates ✨