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Book bindings for various editions of Charles Baudelaire’s “Les Fleurs du mal”
#books#les fleurs du mal#book covers#decadent art#charles baudelaire#antique books#book bindings#art#literature#art noveau#the flowers of evil#old books#decadent movement#my posts#hannibalcore#faves
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#book cover#cover design#book binding#decoration#decorative#victorian#mother of pearl#antique#art#antique books#19th century#flowers#designs#aesthetic#whimsigoth#whimsigothic#gothic
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After a decent chunk of time with UPS firmly placing themselves on my shit list, my Valentine's exchange has finally arrived safe and sound.
Howl's Moving Castle is one of my absolute favorite stories and it felt so perfect for this exchange.
I was so fortunate to get permission for the prettiest artwork to base the entire design around from @britishmuffin Thank you so so much!
I had a blast drawing the flowers for the background vinyl design and just making this the most floral design ever. 🤣
Materials:
Bookcloth - Japanese bookcloth celery (hollanders)
Gold vinyl - vinyl frog
Charm - Amazon
End pages - recollections
#books#books & libraries#bookbinding#handmade#book binding#rebinding#howls moving castle#howl and sophie#howl pendragon#howlscastle#howls fanart#howlsophie#howls moving castle fanart#flowers#book design#book photography
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Fic - 9 ½ Days by the incredible @magpiefngrl !!
I said I might start posting some of the fic binds I’ve done and what better to start with than my all time favorite drarry fic! I’ve read this fic so many times that it feels like coming home, it’s my go to re-read. I love reading when i’m travelling the most, I can just lose myself in this fic so easily,, everyday i’m so grateful that this fic was finished.
I wanted the cover to look a bit like a map that the boys had doodled on despite this never happening in the fic I can just see it so clearly. I wanted it to be full of the references and nods to the story that were stuck in my head. my favorite part of this bind is by far the dried flowers on the final page,, I have no idea why but Draco making the bouquets at the cottage kept rattling around in my brain so i just,, made some in the back. The flowers are not at all accurate with what’s in the story but I was working with what I had
#drarry#fic binding#bookbinding#ignore how melted the HTV is in some places#and I didn’t show the spine for a reason lol#its not good#the pressed flowers are one of my favorite parts of this bind#my back still hurts thinking about glueing them down#harry potter#draco malfoy#drarry fic
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I did it! It's done, my very first fanbinding :D
Thee illustrious @tethysresort allowed me to bind their fic Paper Lanterns which is a lovely Glorfindel/Erestor fic and I adore it and was overcome with the desire to hold it in my hands, and here it is! At long last!
I am extremely please with how this book came out, it fits well in my hand, is a lovely weight, and the cereal box I used for the overs isn't nearly as floppy as I feared it would be. I was planning to use blue floss for the stitching (because blue is lovely) but I am so glad I looked around until I round a red that almost perfectly matches the red on the cover ahhhh I am just so pleased!
I started this back in January but the type setting and printing was just so awful and convoluted that I gave up for months, until April when I able to finally format my pages properly thanks to my dad (below the cut you can see all my printing attempts vs how the final fic, it's ridiculous). And then I only started making the covers a few days ago so it really just came together all at once.
With my leftover floss I made a little loop which can be twisted around the corners of the book to keep it closed, which is a great use for the leftovers that I otherwise would have thrown away.
All in all I am sooo happy with this binding! There were a lot of bumps on the way, but I'll just have to make sure to take what I've learned here and apply it to my next project!
trying to get my signatures to print in the right order was hell
#my art#fanbinding#book binding#glorestor#<- tagging this glorestor because it's a great glorestor fic and I am recommneding it to everyone#silmarillion#silmarillion fanbind#paper craft#i really don't know what other tags to use rip#flowers#bookbinding
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Its finally done!!!
After getting back into BBC's Merlin recently (read: a couple months ago) I realized I no longer trusted streaming services to still have it available long term and managed to buy a complete DVD box set.
But because the slip case had quite a bit of wear to it (and due to some minor scopophobia) I made it a box that looks like a book!
(More rambling info & video under cut)
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The base construction is cardboard and paper (used to cover the exposed cut edges and strengthen corners). The box's faux paper edge is a printed texture on cardstock that was then waxed. The interior is black cardstock with silver vinyl. The 'book case' is that same cardboard construction with faux raised bands (made with some scrap foam I had) wrapped in Cialux's night blue bookcloth (hence the minor wrinkles) with Cricut HTV in metallic gold and 'reflective rainbow'.
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Cover: Obviously Pendragon logo had to go front and center, no argument on that one. (Also partially cause Merlin doesn't really have his own symbol to him? The triskelion just doesn't make sense to me because although Emyrs is a symbol for the druids, Merlin himself isn't a druid and I'd imagine would instead choose icons of Camelot and Arthur to represent himself besides.) ANYWAY- Behind the crest, filligree containing a blade and the sidhe staff in that subtle reflective HTV that blends into the bookcloth exactly how I wanted until it catches the light (something something, hidden magic in the background something something).
(Appologies for the unsteady hands)
Spine: Mortaeus flower! Because it really felt like a turning point for the two (you've known each other... what a week? and you're going against your father to travel to some far off cave to get a flower?? that's some good as dnd-adventuring-party type shit I love it). Minor detail are the top and bottom shapes: pulled from some cool windows we see a lot in season one (I just think there' neat, okay?)
Back Cover: Excalibur with two butterflies cut from the blue-toned area of the rainbow HTV :)
And finally the Inside!: The cup of life! Because it felt just a little empty. I'm still tempted to put something small on the bottom left corner of the inside cover... maybe a crown? not sure yet
And that's everything! Thanks for reading! If anyone wants to make something similar for their own dvd set I'd be happy to share the .svg or .png file of the cut outs, just shoot me a message 👍 Before you go, wanna know the worst part about this project???
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It doesn't even fit on my DVDs shelf :)))) It sticks out by about an inch and a half 😭So we maaay have to be relegated to the 'actual books' bookshelf...
#merlin#bbc merlin#loooove how this turned out besides the wrinkles and a fuck up I had around the flower#but thats what I get for trying to do raised bands with bookcloth like that i guess lol#(typically you'd do leather and not bookcloth (which has a paper backing) buuuuuut I don't have the kind of spare funds for that)#I think the construction of this whole think took about a month on and off?#but I'd been figuring out what I wanted the designs to be for a month or so previous to that#very happy to be done with this so I can finally put time back towards actual book/fan binding again haha#my art#my posts
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JOMP Book Photo Challenge
February 25 - Ripped my heart out
#jompbpc#the binding#bridget collins#booklr#mypics#books#books and flowers#bookblr#read#books and plants#lgbt+ books#queer books
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47th (?) coloring submission for @green-with-envy-phandom-event with lineart by @foxyteah
.... was i thinking up a whole plot for this au while coloring? yeah. yeah i was.
#greenwithenvy2024#danny phantom#paulina sanchez#i meant to follow actual manhwa coloring and then i quickly diverged as my time ran out#absolutely believe paulina would cast a spell or something to pull her and phantom into her story#danny thinks the way to break out of the story would be to remove the crown - thinking that's binding him to the world#but no! plot twist! the flowers that glow at night are actually a disguised variety of blood blossoms that dampen his powers#and as time in the story goes on the blood blossoms have a greater affect on danny - times running out for him to figure out the disguised#flowers are the reason he can't use his powers and destroy them to break out otherwise he'll be stuck forever#paulina would absolutely made a deal with a ghost to find and plant a variety of blood blossoms that wouldn't hurt danny#but would cancel out enough of his powers to keep him tethered to the story#paulina is having the time of her life! danny not so much. but it would be a fun opportunity to humanize paulina for danny#and of course Sam takes place of villainess to “heroine” here because paulina is that petty
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So my baby's sisters absolute favourite book is Flowers For Algernon and I'm pretty okay at binding books so for Xmas I'm giving her a cool rebound version.
But here's the thing. It's a journal, right? And she loves when shit feels real you know like when books set in the 1800s have yellowed pages and those rough edges and shit. So I got it into my head that I'm going to actually write it out by hand, with the handwriting style reflecting the mastery of language that changes throughout the story (i.e. blocky and rudimentary at first, evolving into quicker possibly cursive as he learns, then blocky again but shaky at the end). I'm doing the short version bc I love my sister but not enough to handwrite 200 pages in different fonts.
So anyways this is a Project so anyone who sees this do me a favor and yell at me to work on it so it actually gets done this year lol.
#teddy talks#personal#flowers for algernon#book binding#might post progress updates as we go we'll see#so far ive done (drumroll please) 1 and a quarter entries. out of like a hundred#itll get easier further in when i can actually write at speed but rn i have to mind my letters so they look like they#took effort to remember#.....i need more caffeine for this
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Vita Nova, bound by Pétrus Ruban
via digitalcollections.nypl.org
#book cover#vintage books#antique books#book binding#flower art#vintage aesthetic#antique aesthetic#vintage book covers#e
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Wild Flowers of Palestine, Pressed Flower Specimen Book, 1895 Harvey B. Greene - 15 pages bound mat, illustrated. Similar edition for viewing avaliable at ecommons from the University of Dayton
Source: Lone Jack, MO Soulis Auctions
#Palestine#pressed flowers#antique#antique book#christian book#1890s#gilded age#victorian era#soulis#auction#ugh i lovee antique binding. pretty.#anyways#free palestine#donate to palestinian relief#if you know of good links for donating please add on to this. i know theres bullshit going on rn with some of them but whatever you can do
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sketches
#art#thresher shark#domo kun#dirk strider#homestuck#the binding of isaac#smiling friends#karkat vantas#roxy lalonde#capybara#sunflower pvz#alien flower#pvz#plants vs zombies
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Refulgent Summer Blooms
August has slipped into September, but these are always blooming. Enjoy these shining bright flowers of the Dutch gilt paper end papers in an 18th century work by Christian mystic, Jakob Böhme. (For more on the contents of the book, see this recent post.)
Böhme, Jakob. Theosophia revelata. Das ist: Alle göttliche Schriften des gottseligen und hocherleuchteten deutschen Theosophi... [Amsterdam, 1730-1731].
#dutch gilt paper#decorative papers#book binding#bookhistory#rare books#18th century#flowers#floral#gold
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there’s something so palpable about the loneliness shared by niki and tallulah. phil knowing they would get along, them both standing off to the side during the phil tubbo and etoiles banter moment, tallulah checking in with niki and making sure she was good, giving her sentimental poppies and pink dye and a patch for her backpack, niki telling her she never has to feel lonely ever again. tallulah being the last thing niki saw before she logged out and niki promising solely tallulah that she would return. well aware that they have just met but they know each other’s solitude very personally. they have a very parallel loneliness and it brings them together and keeps them apart and is parallel in the plainest of definitions and senses
#eleanor.txt#niki nihachu#tallulah#qsmp#i don’t think i have enough abt the subject to make a sole tallulah meta abt it but her solitude is so practiced too#in the sense that like she is so familiar with it she is using her own experiences and things that have helped her to help niki#to make her feel welcome. to ease that solitude that she herself is so accustomed to#the backpack customization. the flowers. things to make her feel almost at home in her own body there. sentimental ties niki can bind to#because tallulah’s been there for a long time already. and she’s been lonely for a long time already. and she knows it helps#it doesn’t make it go away. but it helps#which brings me back to the whole overarching qsmp persona of them all just helping each other all the time#they all intrinsically believe in helping each other. they offer all the time. they take each other up on it#god. love that server i really do#nihachu
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istg it needs to be drilled into peoples heads that you can be trans while also enjoying presenting as your gender assigned at birth
#I saw an instagram reel the other day that was like ‘when youre a boy and love wearing dresses and makeup and not binding’ and the comments#were so transphobic it physically hurt#makes me pissed#i love pink and butterflies and flowers and fashion and glamour but im still strictly nonbinary#even though im afab#sarah rambles
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—Superman and Lois, “Lies That Bind”
#Clark Kent#Lois Lane#Tal-Rho#Tyler Hoechlin#Bitsie Tulloch#Adam Rayner#2.12 Lies That Bind#Flowers | Tal and Lois#Clois#Superman & Lois
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