#tiny book

[zhalfirin]

Bredlik Poems (anthology) - collected and credited by @marvinhere                                                  doodles by Jenny

This typeset was shared with me complete with doodles and QR-codes.

materials used

cover binders board, 1,5 (covers) cardboard (spine stiffener) leather, goat (covering material) heat activated foil (hot stamped title and decorations)

inner book Munken polar, 100gsm (book body) printed decorative paper (endpapers and endbands)

slipcase binders board, 1,5 decorative paper, printed (narrow sides) satogami paper, black (wide sides, inner lining)

dimensions 2,5cm x 2,5cm

[pardalote]

A tiny stitched book.

[etherati]

My first REALLY tiny book, a bind of Four of Swords. A sextodecimo! This lil guy is about 3" x 2 1/4" and is bound with actual cards from the miniature edition RWS deck. Because of the fun tarot imagery I'd been wanting to bind this one, but it's so short, just about 5000 words, so it had to go really little :3

Printed on pop-tone white from French, spine and sword detail done with HTV. I printed the main narrative in black and the flashbacks in blue, for visual separation, and the endpapers are of artwork done for this fic by the incredible @sandwichartistdatzu !!

[kulapti]

Sept 2023, bookbinding of The Wine-Dark Sea by @moorishflower.

Marbled paper by @aetherseer. Design notes under the cut. Fic link in reblogs.

Design notes: The codex design was largely driven by the red and black marbled paper handmade by Æthereal Press and the work's theme of embracing darkness, both the literal darkness of the ocean and space and figurative darkness of what is feared and unknown. Aether generously gave me scraps of the paper I used here for both the cover and endpapers, which reminded me immediately and compellingly of blood in black water, so of course I made an edgy tiny book with it. Some of my friends also gave the opinion the cover looks like stylized wounds, which is again quite appropriate for the fic.

Fun new stuff I tried on this one:

stitched a strip of scrap cloth for faux endbands (looks good)

stenciled title (good try, bad choice of paint)

layered bookcloth design (excellent, much easier than expected)

Octopus illustrations are Octopus macropus (title page) and Octopus vulgaris (epilogue) by Comingio Merculiano in the 1896 monograph Cefalopodi viventi nel Golfo di Napoli (sistematica) by Jatta Guiseppe, accessed via Wikimedia Commons.

Materials: Covers use rayon Italian bookcloth, archival bookboard, marbled paper, cardboard scrap, handmade paper, pH-neutral PVA, machine cut-stencil and acrylic paint. Laser printed text on archival paper; bound with 25/3 linen thread, 100% beeswax, cotton scrap, and cotton cheesecloth mull.

[jabbage]

I had a go at binding this lovely tiny typeset of the Raven by @renegadepublishing typesetter Aiden! Although I've done it larger than the typeset was designed to be, this is still the smallest book I've tried making, a teeny little sexidecimo! <3

This was my first time using endpapers that I'd marbelled myself. I bought some really cheap marbling inks intended for kids, so I'm pleased they worked out ok!

It's bound in dark navy bookcloth, and the design on the front and back are acrylic paint applied with a stencil.

Here are some work in progress shots:

[bluevelvetbindery]

Catching up on Binderary workshops today and this is what I accomplished! So pleased with this lil’ fella! I see many more tiny books in my future!

[cmdonovann]

tiny book that i made during binderary is up on my kofi shop! get it before some other tiny book enthusiast does, i suppose?

[tiny-glued-things]

Last book set was more for younger folks, this set is geared towards adults.

[oatmea1cookie]

Here are some more good quotes from the tiny book of quotes from the clown prince of crime! I also wanted to take a picture of the front and back of the book because I think it’s pretty 🤩

But the quote about Jason.. bro that’s fucked..

The rest of them are funny tho!

[sits-bound]

Bound: a wee chonk

I am a big fan of @moonflower-rose’s fics. No one does pining as well. And this duo of fics, the Summer 2009 series is just gorgeously written. I wanted to practice making tiny books, and these were the first fics I thought of. They’re a good length for this size bind - 12k and 20k. And because they go together, I thought it’d be fun to make them as a tete beche. (Dunno if I’m using that correctly. Is it “in the tete beche style”? Or is it a “tete beche”? Not quite sure.) Anyhoo, the point is, you can read the Harry POV from one end (Poppiholla) and the Draco POV from the other (Hoppípolla).

I’m glad I made this, not just because I adore the fics, but also because I learned a lot while doing so. (Wider margins!) I wasn’t about to let this lil peanut near my big bad guillotine, so I sanded the edges instead. Not a ton, but just enough to smooth them out a bit. I need to work on my patience while sanding.

In any case, I’m thrilled with how it came out. The book cloth (Dubletta in aqua/purple) is just beautiful, I’m so glad I kept this scrap of it! And the holographic HTV goes with it perfectly. (Some Cricut stuff I got on clearance.)

[nocturnus33]

I always wanted to make tiny books, but I was intimidated by them. This weekend, my husband and I gave it a try. They're just mini notebooks, but we're happy with the results.

[zhalfirin]

The Raven - Edgar Allan Poe

These books were part of the Renegady Publishing Tiny Books Bang 2023 event.

Typesetting by @yarnnerd

Full leather binding with gauffered and painted cover, coloured edges, hot stamped spine title and protective slipcase. materials used:

cover binders board, 1,5 (case construction) leather, goatskin (covering material) colourshift acrylic paint heat active foil, silver (hot stamped title)

inner book munken polar, 100gsm (book body) munken polar, 100gsm, painted with oak gall ink (endpapers) colourshift acrylic paint (edge colouring) decorative paper, linnen thread (endbands)

slipcase bindersboard, 1 (case construction) satogami paper, black (lining and narrow sides) decorative paper (wide sides)

book size: 3,1cm x 4,7cm

[pardalote]

Another small book. I made this one for my mother. I haven't shared every page, as some are personal. I love making textile books; playing with edges, applique, beads, patchwork, lace-making - it's just a great way to play with different techniques.

[curiouscatalog]

Even the smallest books have beautiful details.

From: White, Henry Kirke, and Marion Dunlop. The Prose Remains of Henry Kirke White, of Nottingham, Late of St. John’s College, Cambridge : Containing His Letters, Essays, &c. &c. London: Published by Jones & Company, 3, Acton Place, Kingsland Road, 1824. Print.

PR5791 .P9 1824

[kulapti]

Bookbindings of Rare the man that’ll hold to faith by Fahye, July 2023.

Another set from the Renegade Bindery Tiny Books Bang! Text: Rare the man that’ll hold faith (MDZS wangxian Green Knight AU) by @fahye Typesetting: @teleportbooks

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Three similar versions of Rare the man that’ll hold to faith by Fahye, typeset by EHyde, bound by myself! Two of these bindings have endpapers of handmade marbled paper by Æthereal Press (thanks @aetherseer <3).

I was so excited to get this fantastic typeset, in which EHyde used a number of historical decorations from Klemscott Press on the title page and section dividers. I cannot get over all the cool decorative bits in this typeset you guys. Just look at that title page!! I had so much fun reading this fic in hard copy and giggling over all the little teeny leaves and fancy letters.

I chose to use one of the smaller decorative grape vine designs for the cover, since I have not had good luck using the cricut or hand-writing on title letters small enough for these spines. I think it looks pretty neat :D

Decisions were made: I like using small books to try out new techniques, and for these I tried out stitching in the endpapers. That was uhh not the greatest idea for something I intended to give away tbh, but I think the results still look alright. This endpaper style is extremely uncommon in recently published books, though one might find it in fancy editions of books made around a hundred years ago. I think it’s pretty cool and I like that it can subtly emphasize a handmande book being constructed differently from most of what bookstores can sell! I should have paid closer attention to matching my tapes and the lining of my covers. The gapping is a cosmetic problem more than a structural problem, and they should be quite sturdy, though I do wish I had been able to line these up better.

Materials: Laser printed text on archival paper, letter size folded sextodecimo; cotton thread and beeswax stitching with archival paper scrap for reinforcement; the case is scrabooking paper and bookcloth, archival PVA and bookboard, and metallic cover decoration made of heat-transfer vinyl. Endpapers are either archival scrapbooking paper or handmade marbled paper with some shimmery accents. Cotton scrap faux-endbands and unknown scrap ribbon for the bookmarks.

[towns-end-bindery]

Tiny Books!

A sneak peak at a project I’m working on. I won’t show what the book is, but it’s gonna be one of several little books, for a longer term project.

It’ll be a while before I can really properly resume this project. I got a few of these completed, but there’s a whole bunch more I want to finish, but work is SO busy right now. I’m working nearly 30 hours of overtime over the next three weeks. So it’s looking like I won’t be able to get back into this project until Thanksgiving week.

In the meantime, can you guess what this book is supposed to be just from looking at the endpapers?