towns-end-bindery

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if you don't have your own boyfriend, rented is fine by @nyoomerr / nyoomerr

After being turned away by the nice Shizun of that other world, Luo Binghe finds himself in the modern world where he can find a new nice Shizun for himself. Instead, he finds Shen Yuan, who could not possibly be who he's searching for - he's crass, and inelegant, and looks only vaguely related to Shen Qingqiu. Luckily for both of them, Shen Yuan mistakes Luo Binghe as a cosplayer for hire, and asks to rent him out as his very normal new boyfriend.

title/chapter numbers/drop caps: Sweynheim & Pannartz title/body text/headers: Petrona

86,177 words | 211 pages

What can i say except: I LOVE THIS FIC! I love it so so much it makes me so happy seeing luo binghe get the happy ending he deserves. I love that its such a good exploration of biased POVs (ah shen yuan, the man you are) and that its the right amount of humorous and poignant for my liking <3 thank you so much for this fic, i love it dearly!! and i really hope that you enjoy having this copy, nyoomerr!

As for design notes: this one has 3 layers of cloth on the cover to emulate binghe's clothes, and the cover/chapter designs are the embroidery design down the collar of one of his robes. Shen yuan is convinced binghe is a cosplayer literally right up to the end, so i HAD to. Edges are painted in daler rowney silver, and its soooo shiny, along with basically every single other part of this bind, i LIBERALLY used toner foil for the first time ever and i really enjoyed the look. i did not think that it would be so tedious putting it through the laminator hahaha. Also i love this cloth, it a mix of silk finish and moire cloth, and it feels/looks extremely sumptuous, its truly amazing.

ANYWAY! Read this fic!

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I finally finished binding Nature and Nurture by @earlgreytea68, such a beautiful Johnlock fic that I’ve loved for years.

This was honestly a tricky one. I wanted to do something delicate and nature-inspired, so I made a little window on the cover with translucent paper to hold some dried flowers... which turned out beautiful eventually, but not before I messed it up three times and accidentally sliced into the back of the text block 😅 Worth it though.

The design is inspired by the GORGEOUS bind by wilddaisies_bindery on ig and also some bookmarks i made ages ago and that look so pretty with this bind.

The title, author, and AO3 logo are all handwritten with paint markers, and I used sea photographs from Canva as endpapers.

I’m so happy with how it turned out and I'm so glad to finally give this fic a physical form after loving it for years.

Thank you so much to the author for letting me bind this beauty and I hope you like how it turned out!

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10.6K Likes! Good god...

I'm not used to going viral. It's strange, but it also makes me squirm with pride. I'm glad something I made with my hands could touch the hearts of so many people.

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A bind for @renegadeguild 's 2025 Tiny Book Exchange! [An exchange where you typeset a smaller fic and then someone binds it for you! [or you only typeset a fic or just bind someone else's submitted typeset, ya got options]]

typeset made | bind made (you're here)

I got to bind @bossbot97 's lovely typeset of @croik 's Kane & Feels / Ghost Wax crossover: The Title of this Fic has been Redacted for your Safety! (which i'm realizing now I didn't get any other interior pictures ahhhh)

The finished book measures approx. 2"x 3"

This fic features the characters from both audio dramas hunting/being hunted down by a creature with a bird-like skull covered in feather-like shapes, so I took that aspect and ran with it.

I initially wanted to have more to the cover of this bind but life got a bit in the way and I was honestly quite liking the more simple look for this. Makes it feel more like a mysterious and ominous book you'd just... find somewhere, yaknow?

Overall, the chisel trimming turned out alright. Surprisingly harder to do on a smaller book than a full sized one! (At least for me lol). First time sanding/edge-coloring and that turned out not bad!

Materials: I actually got this bookcloth from a Talas sampler pack (and they don't label their samples) but I believe it's Asahi Bookcloth in #2379 Black. (And it adds such a neat texture for this bind.) The endpapers are black cardstock with overlapping feather textures printed on it, so the pattern is subtle until it catches the light. Bound using linen thread and archival pva glue, endbands sewn using single strand embroidery thread in a faux-double core style. Printed on Hammermill 20lb cream paper.

Cover: An inset window that holds a paper cut bird-like skull. Made with cardstock cut into different layer silhouettes, painted details, glued together, waxed, and then glued into the window (which took so many little tabs to get that shape lol)

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Ovid’s Metamorphoses Rebind

Here is my binding of the Metamophoses of Ovid. The cover (front and back) is a steel plate engraving called The Fall of Phaeton, anonymously created in the 17th century, Netherlands. The image was printed on art canvas with an inkjet printer. The spine title was hand foiled in red with a memory keepers foil quill. This is a three-piece bradel case binding.

Some close up images:

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The trees, having finally got the message to slow down, are saying môr and cefnfor, quiet bass notes of great urgency, whispered with flickering leaves and the sound of far off thunder, a noise that follows Dan all the way to work. Sea and Ocean.

i bound i'm half doomed and you're semi-sweet by The_ Blonde. i love this phanfic, with its talking trees and thieving faeries and mist-shrouded, angry sea. so I made it into a book—twice. you could say one cover is phil-themed and the other dan-themed.

(if you haven't read this fic and want to, please avoid spoilers by not reading the pages pictured here!)

there were lots of new skills to be learned in the making of these books, from the made endpapers (which did turn out slightly rumpled in places, much to my chagrin) to the gold-painted titles (for which I used acrylic and a tiny stencil). and so the books didn't turn out perfectly, but i am still more than happy that they now live on my shelves :>

some pics taken in the sunshine:

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I really shot myself in the foot with how detailed I made these covers 😅 doing all 12 has been… interesting. I decided to do all 12 since there was some interested after I did the first three. I’ll be listing these soon, but honestly I’m not sure how many times I’d want to make these with how intense they are, so I may not keep the listing up after the initial 12 sell 😭 or maybe I’ll simplify the designs a little, I’m not too sure yet. To be fair not many people would want to invest in how much 12 rebound books would cost, so it might not be much of an issue anyway 🤷‍♀️

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My amazing friend, Sapience, does craft bookbinding, and she bound two of my novel-length fics! They are beautiful inside and out, and I'm so delighted and proud to have them.

If you don't have a custom-bound hard copy of these stories but want to read them, I think they're some of my best work!

Like Describing the Alphabet, Firefly, Jayne/Mal, first posted 2004 https://archiveofourown.org/works/8917360

It's Only Castles Burning, X-Men movieverse, Beast/Wolverine, first posted 2016 https://archiveofourown.org/works/6086236

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Today's diary entry ✨ 07.17.25

I haven't posted in forever and I meant to post to this regularly to showcase my work and the parts I love about the creation process. So please take these pictures of my most recent work as an apology 😅

When I saw these beads I immediately thought "ransom letters". It just reminded me of the random magazine letter cut outs used in movies. I'm sure I'll make more covers but this was the first one I made ✨

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Can’t Afford to Fall - p103

This lovely bind was bound for redtulipsbindery for our 1-to-1 trade. The goal was to bind a Drarry fic with “old timey letter/communication” vibes. Me being me, immediately thought typewriter (hence the delicious typewriter keys” - and from there is spiraled into vintage junk journaling.

There are little nods to the fic hidden amongst all the layers here - most notably the “De-Extinguisher“ Harry gifts Draco.

This is THE single most amount of layers I have ever had in play at once. The just jacket was SO much fun to play around with.

I wanted to pair it with an aestheticly classics cover so I used this mahogany Allure bookcloth from @hollanders.book.and.paper.arts - it doesn’t take HTV nicely so I opted for a naked cover.

The speckled edges were an experiment - and while not perfect, they match the books colors so lovely.

I’m pleased with how this bind turned out! 🖤 I think it’s safe to say, from the number of videos I was sent upon its arrival, that it was well received.

Bound for personal use only - no money exchanged. Can be read for free on AO3.

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A Delta Green inspired Bradel Bind empty notebook, for a giveaway at the next ttrpg community meetup.

I experimented for the first time with painted edges for this, and I found that it was quite doable!

In fact I used this one to experiment a bit overall, I cut the edges with my boxcutter - a bit wonky at that width, but it worked. Then I sanded the edges down (I was a bit impatient so there are still some rough spots) and once sanded, I painted the edges.

Here are some progress pictures below the readmore:

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Forgot to post this one in the group of books made recently. This is War,Children by Nonymos. A Stucky, shrinkyklinks modern day AU. What a mouthful.

This book actually means alot. It was @armoredsuperheavy 's copy of War, Children that they made that first brought my attention to fanbinding and bookbinding. It's very sentimental to make this (even if I did get ONE page out of order) and it came out very nice, even with a few flaws.

I might revisit it again in a few years for a eebind. See how my skills improve and style changes.

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Embroidery onto fabrics and turning them into book cloth has to be one of the most rewarding ways to bind books. It creates lovely dimension and helps to give the book character that you may not achieve by just cloth alone.

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A project I’ve been working on recently, rebinding books 1-3 of the AFTG series

Here are some more photos for perusal:

As you can see, each of the text blocks is a slightly different size, and so each fit into the cases I made slightly differently. But this was a fun challenge and I really enjoyed this project!

I intend to do a matching yellow set of books 4-6 once book 6 is out 💛

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Another bradel binding A6 sized empty book! This time I chose blue paper that is possibly as old as I am (my father put it in the cellar ages ago!) to pair with my blue endpapers and my blue bookcloth! Blue³

This is using up some stock that I bought specifically for the author copy of the previous bind, but I love the colors so all is well.

Its a little lopsided (from the spine) and I'll have to check out why that happened, maybe it got skewed in the press? And theres two little areas where the blotting paper (pink) stuck to the cover, possibly because of stray glue. I'll have to wipe everything better before it goes in the press.

But overall a beautiful little blue book. No owner yet, so for now it stands in my bookshelf.

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The trees, having finally got the message to slow down, are saying môr and cefnfor, quiet bass notes of great urgency, whispered with flickering leaves and the sound of far off thunder, a noise that follows Dan all the way to work. Sea and Ocean.

i bound i'm half doomed and you're semi-sweet by The_ Blonde. i love this phanfic, with its talking trees and thieving faeries and mist-shrouded, angry sea. so I made it into a book—twice. you could say one cover is phil-themed and the other dan-themed.

(if you haven't read this fic and want to, please avoid spoilers by not reading the pages pictured here!)

there were lots of new skills to be learned in the making of these books, from the made endpapers (which did turn out slightly rumpled in places, much to my chagrin) to the gold-painted titles (for which I used acrylic and a tiny stencil). and so the books didn't turn out perfectly, but i am still more than happy that they now live on my shelves :>

some pics taken in the sunshine:

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The Complete Poems of Emily Brontë

Birthday present done for a friend