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Lidded boxes for endband silk

Stacked boxes with lid, middle dividers and movable sliders

Materials used construction main body of the boxes - grey board 1,5mm divider - grey boar 2,4mm base - grey board 3mm lid - grey board 2,4mm and 3mm

cover materials box body - book cloth (pigeon grey) paper onlays and box insides - tairei with fibre inclusions (black with gold and black with silver) base - elephant hide paper (black)

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The Lunar Year - Elsin

with kind permission of the author

Full cloth binding with paper onlays

Materials used

case materials covers - grey board (1,5) spine stiffener - cardboard covering material - book cloth, red paper onlays - commercial decorative paper

inner book text block paper - Munken polar, 100gsm endpapers - commercial decorative paper endbands - button hole silk

Format: ~A6 (10,5cm x 14,8cm)

Typeset in Affinity 2 Fonts used title font - Thelorin text font - Alegreya

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DELVE: A Solo Map Drawing Game

Full cloth binding with paper onlay (Bradel binding)

materials used inner book paper - schleipen fly 05, 115gsm endpapers - Ingres Bütten (black) endbands - linnen thread wrapped with chiyogami paper

case boards - 1mm grey board spine stiffener - card stock cover material - Iris book cloth (black) paper onlay - chiyogami paper title - hot stamped with heat activated foil (white)

format: ~A5

Look at some wip-troubleshooting here

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Apothecaria (Solo Potion Making RPG) - Blackwell Games

Bradel binding

Materials used cover boards - 1mm binder board covering material - colibri book cloth (amber) and Lokta paper (dark blue, gold) spine stiffener - cardstock title plate - Lokta paper and hot stamped title

inner book paper - Schleipen Fly 05 (115 gsm) endpapers - Lokta paper (dark blue and gold print) endbands - linnen thread (10/3) and Lokta paper (dark blue and gold print)

Format: ~ A5 (14,8cm - 21cm)

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Extinction - VER

Full cloth binding with paper onlay

Another wonderful story by @sticksandsharks. Thank you for the kind permission to bind your work.

Materials used

Case Boards - grey board 1mm Spine stiffener - cardstock Covering material - book cloth (blue) Paper onlay - chiyogami paper title - gold foil (hot stamped)

Inner book Text block - Schleipen fly 05 (115gsm) Endpapers - coffee paper (120gsm) Endbands - linnen core (10/3) and chiyogami paper

Format: ~ 9,8cm x 13,8cm

Read about the process and some trouble shooting here

This is what the paper originally looked like.

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Sacred Bodies - VER

Full cloth binding with paper onlay

Again many thanks @sticksandsharks for the kind permission to bind this work.

Materials used

Case Boards - grey board 1mm Spine stiffener - cardstock Covering material - book cloth (pigeon grey) Paper onlay - chiyogami paper title - gold foil (hot stamped)

Inner book Text block - Schleipen fly 05 (115gsm) Endpapers - coffee paper (120gsm) Endbands - linnen core (10/3) and chiyogami paper

Format: ~ 9,8cm x 14,2cm

See WIP pictures here

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Sacred Bodies - VER

Thank you @sticksandsharks for the kind permission to bind your work. I love it very much and am happy to be able to hold a copy of it in my hands.

Full clothbinding with paper onlays

Materials used

Case covers - 1mm grey board spine stiffener - cardstock cover material - Colibri book cloth (forest floor) paper onlay - marbled paper (80gsm) by Renato Crepaldi title - gold foil, hot stamped

Inner book textblock - Schleipen Fly 05 (115gsm) endpapers - marbled paper (80gsm) by Renato Crepaldi endbands - linnen core (10/3) wrapped with marbled paper

Format: 9,5cm x 13,8cm

See WIP pictures here

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Full clothbinding with paper onlay

Materials used

Case Boards - grey board 1,5mm Spine stiffener - cardstock Covering material - book cloth (pigeon grey) Paper onlay - chiyogami paper

Inner book Text block - Schleipen fly 05 (115gsm) Endpapers - Bugra Bütten (120gsm) Endbands - linnen core (10/3) and chiyogami paper

Format: ~ 9,8cm x 14,2cm

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Full clothbinding with paper onlay

Materials used

Case Boards - grey board 1mm Spine stiffener - cardstock Covering material - Iris book cloth (green) Paper onlay - chiyogami paper

Inner book Text block - Schleipen fly 05 (115gsm) Endpapers - coffee paper (120gsm) Endbands - linnen core (10/3) and chiyogami paper

Format: ~ 9,8cm x 14,2cm

Btw this is what the paper originally looked like.

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Apothecaria (Solo Potion Making RPG) - Blackwell Games

Bradel binding

(There's been a lot going on with this bind even though it doesn't look like it. Check the WIP posts [1], [2] and [3] for more about that.)

Materials used cover boards - 1mm binder board, cardstock, thick paper covering material - Duo book cloth (brick) and Lokta paper (dark blue, copper) spine stiffener - cardstock

inner book paper - Schleipen Fly 05 (115 gsm) endpapers - Lokta paper (bright blue, dark blue) and Ingres Bütten paper (black) endbands - linnen thread (10/3) and Lokta paper (bright blue, dark blue)

Format: ~ A5 (14,8cm - 21cm)

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DELVE: A Solo Map Drawing Game

Full cloth binding with paper onlay (Bradel binding)

materials used inner book paper - schleipen fly 05, 115gsm endpapers - Ingres Bütten (black) endbands - linnen thread wrapped with chiyogami paper

case boards - 1mm grey board spine stiffener - card stock cover material - Iris book cloth (black) paper onlay - chiyogami paper title - hot stamped with heat activated foil (white)

format: ~A5

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ANBU Legacy 3.1 and 3.2 - @anbu-legacy

Again I thank the authors for their kind permission

Full cloth binding with title hot stamped on the spine.

case materials covers - grey board (2,4) spine stiffener - cardboard covering material - coated book cloth, black hot stamped title - heat reactive foil, silver

inner book text block paper - Schleipen Fly 05r, 115gsm endpapers - Chiyogami paper endbands - buttonhole silk

Format: ~A6 (10,5cm x 14,8cm)

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Notebook

conservational single section binding

The specialty of this binding style is, that the text block does not get in contact with any glue whatsoever, which makes it a great conservational binding style for single section bindings while still offering the support and protection of sturdy boards for covers

I have to thank @lordminx, who was one of the presenters at the @renegadeguild binderary 2025 event, for introducing me to this quick and easy method.

materials used:

case boards - laminated cardstock (probably 1mm in thickness) spine - bookcloth (paperbacked) cover material - decorative papers (origami paper, printed traditional patterned paper and katazome paper)

inner book book block - Schleipen Fly 05, 115gsm endpapers - coloured paper (90gsm, orange), Ingres paper (100gsm, black), book block paper

format: ~A7

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The Flowers We Pick & The Fruit We Choose by Canon_in_D

This lovely typeset was made for Renegade Tiny Books Bang 2024 by canon-in-too-deep

This bind is in so far unusual that traditionally in a cloth and paper binding, the cloth, as the more sturdy and durable material, would go on the spine. Since this book is small and light I let design overrule tradition.

Materials used

book case boards - 1mm book board covering materials - bookcloth (black), Fancy Majestic paper (iridescent blue), Chiyogami paper evening out material - paper the same thickness as the cloth title - hot tooled with foil

inner book textblock paper - Munken pure 100gsm endpapers - Chiyogami paper endbands - Chiyogami paper wrapped around a 10/3 linnen thread core

Format: 9,5cm x 13,5cm

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Full cloth binding with paper onlays

Materials used:

inner book text paper - Schleipen Fly 05 115gsm endpapers - Reflex Coffee Paper 120gsm endbands - linnen core wrapped with book cloth

case boards - 1mm grey board spine stiffener - cardstock covering materials - Duo bookcloth (brick) paper onlay - japanese yuzen paper

Format: ~A6

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Refilled notebook

case materials

case - bought paperblank notebook with the (used) inner book cut out.

inner book material text paper - copy paper (double fan bound) endpapers - satogami (black) endbands - satogami paper and linnen thread

format: 12cm x 18cm

WIP steps Preparing the case and making the inner book see here Making paper endbands see here

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Die Mumins - Tove Jansson (The Moomins)

(Keep reading for full cover pictures, close ups of the endbands with a peek of the endpapers and links to the individual book posts)

Round up of my re-binding project of the Moomins books. I really enjoyed making them, but I'm also happy the project is complete now.

Back and front covers of the each of the books.

While I used some of the designs chosen for the book edition I had bought, I altered pretty much each of them to fit the size needed and/or also have an image on the back cover instead of the solid colour and a summary the published edition had.

The titles are printed with a metal cliché that I had custom made for that another binding and chose to use, instead of going for the full titles of the books. To indicate the volume I opted for dots above the title.

Endbands

I tried to also use the endbands to tie the different books together and picked one thread to be the leather colour or previous book and the others to fit the cover. I'm mostly happy how they came out. Only in the 3. book (where the colour shifts from violet to yellow-orange) the bead looks a bit irregular. Bead on the edge is simply not the endband style meant to be worked in such a pattern. I still like how it came out.

See the individual volumes here 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9

This is the metal cliché btw