well that was that! a month entirely characterized by a medically unsound level of sleep and an inadvisable level of wild ambition. a big huge enormous shoutout to @renegadepublishing for hosting binderary and making me think that hmm, sure i can bind a bunch of books during the second half of my penultimate quarter of undergrad while working two jobs and doing research, that’s a normal thing to do right? and to everyone in the server who’s been just lovely and inspiring this whole time it's been an honour to bind with you
Books: 8 out of 7 planned (achieved full medium mode!!)
Pages bound: 1,982
Words bound: 350,535+
New things tried (do i qualify for technique master?):
Heat transfer vinyl for covers: 4, and what an adventure. should i have tried to apply the entire front of ATYLWBCA as my first attempt? no. but it's fine! shoutout to my friend for the borrowed iron that i gave myself a second degree burn on at 2am.
Spines painted: 2, using gold and silver metallic acrylic ink. i don't own brushes so ink application was done with a pair of scissors (spine of BE) and a knitting needle (spine of weight of the world)
Full-cloth covers: 4, if cloth weren't expensive i'd do it all the time because it feels super classy
Made endpapers: 2 sets, shoutout to william morris (BE) and british library scans of old mineralogy books (thin section)
(pre-made) Endbands: 6 sets, dyed with acrylic inks
Flat-backed books with board spines: 7, plus several hours spent trying to figure out the hinge gap calculation. i’m an earth science major i’m not built for math.
French link stitch: 4, i don't know why i was scared of this but i was and now french link is my best friend
assortments of progress pictures that don't fit in my (forthcoming) individual posts under the cut.
my first ever hollanders order, the night i spent hunched over my cutting mat on the floor doing all the boards at once, textblocks not yet stitched
stitched textblocks (conquering my fear of french link stitch), made endpapers, and acrylic-dyed pre-sewn endbands
various stages of casemaking (full-cloth ready to press, post-htv struggles, the classic 'write the directions on BOTH the block AND the case so you don't case in upside down')
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So - my debut post under a new name!!! Sneaky little rebranding there - had a good time making a little icon, reinforcing what a sassy lil geek i am.
Anyway - I can finally create my Binderary 2023 wrap up and talk through a little stats.
Binderary 2023 stats!
Total books made: 8 (out of 13 planned)
Total fandoms: 5 (Star Trek, The Mandalorian, Harry Potter, James Bond (Daniel Craig trilogy), Hannibal)
Total words: 776,628 words
Total books gifted: 3 (KIV 4)
Author copies: 1
A picspam of some of the books made:
What I really loved from Binderary was the opportunity to push my boundaries. I had initially told myself - 4 books, which then became 8 books, until it snowballed to a total number of 13. I didn't manage to hit the ultimate target but I can't believe I did 8 at all, managed to try a couple of new things and made books I am proud of.
In particular, I love the books I made for an exchange with @pleasantboatpress!
I was mildly worried going into it because @pleasantboatpress does such beautiful designs and has such an eye for colour, and ended up re-working the designs for both books twice. I also averted some disaster because i didn't factor in the bulk of the stitching for the spine of For Gladness of You and had to desperately sand the textblock down to get it to fit. Ultimately, I like how the books turned out and am so thrilled that they liked the books! For Gladness of You is absolutely my most favourite AOS fic - i love trek so much and I am so glad I got to do 2 trek binds for them!
A big thank you to @notabuddhist, who kindly agreed to let me bind One of Many Great Fires (a beautiful TOS fic that I fell in love with from my experience in Thylabang2020) and who kindly agreed to let me bind them an author copy in the future. I owe them a progress 'making of book' post but i'll do that when i get back from my trip.
Sneaky peeky of last book made during Binderary - it wasn't perfect and I had a tough fight with Cricut Heat Transfer Foil but other than the press lines, I love the gold of the James Bond motif!
Credits: https://vulcancalligraphy.blogspot.com/ for the Vulcan calligraphy on the of One of Many Great Fires, Chris (Noun Project) for Enterprise vector
This February, I participated in the @renegadepublishing Discord's binderary bookbinding event. For this event, I decided to bind a book for every day in February, but in order to be realistic about my time constraints, I chose to do each book as a single-section pamphlet bind! I chose 14 different fics by authors (and friends) in the Malevolent fandom and did the typesetting for them during January, then bound 2-3 copies of each fic over the course of February. Here is the final spread!
Each cover design utilizes either public domain images from sites such as rawpixel and the Noun Project or art created for the fic! It was a pleasure to work with the authors of these fics this month, along with the associated artists, and I had a wonderful time with this project. Below is a list of the various fics and their associated authors and, if applicable, artists.
Phagia | PrettyArbitrary, author; Vandy, artist (cover, chapter header)
In Vino Veritas | @organchordsandlightning, author; @ratscantwrite-alt, artist (cover)
(you're) the only song i want to hear |@acemartinblackwood, author
Sanctity of Your Form | @sqwormywormy, author; Wyrm, artist (chapter header)
Gingerly Held |@shadow0haven, author
Guess This Makes Me The Godfather |@croik, author
An Invitation | Anonymous, author; ihaveyoureyes, artist (centerfold)
The Neighbors | Llwyden, author
A Home to Go Home to | quakergoth, author
The Sharp Static of a Restless Mind | @anonymoussong, author; @hyenasatanist, artist (centerfold)
City Hall Fundraiser | @organchordsandlightning, author
Dessert | @suttttton, author
Repetition//Retention | @kahtiihma, author; @shadow0haven, artist (cover); Kraik, artist (chapter header)
Recrown the Creation/You're Half of the Flesh and Blood That Makes Me Whole | LoyalMonsterFan, author
Pictures of the title page and chapter header for each fic can be found below the cut! Some images and text may be NSFW.
Last Binderary book is DONE!!!! This is the incredible Maybe sprout wings, by @moorishflower.
This post is going to be a doozy, so gonna just skip straight to the cut!
INTERIOR
INTRODUCTION
I really wanted to model this bind after my own copy of the Odyssey, (which is all highlighted and bookmarked and annotated to hell from my Great Text courses in undergrad ehe, so this bind was such a fun trip down memory lane!). But beyond just the cover/general aesthetic, I also wanted to give the book a similar feel to these kinds of editions of classics--there's usually an introduction, translation notes, and other supplementary materials, right? Like, a physical manifestation of the work of many, many people, all having conversations with one another across time and space.
So that's what I did! I wrote a short introduction (I will also probably post it to my AO3/my blog as well, in the name of preservation etc. etc.) and began reaching out to folks in the fandom who I knew had created art and meta for the fic. The result? 18k words of analysis, comments, and meta, and nearly twenty pages of art!
And this is what I love most about this bind, I think! This book is the work of several people--truly a collaborative work by the fandom--all of whom I will now be shamelessly calling out below :D
CHAPTER HEADER ART
First and foremost, this book would not be what it is without the gorgeous header art by @fancy-rock-dove! Thank you so much Dove for letting include your work, and for being so supportive and kind these past few weeks about this bind <3 You in particular have contributed so much to this book (which I will be getting more into in the next section ehe), and I'm so psyched I get to hold your art and words, too!
NOTES ON THE TEXT
This section was divided into four parts: Asks and Answers, Meta, Selected Comments, and Chapter Heading Art: Process
For Asks and Answers, I trawled Heather's blog for meta she had written in response to questions and other meta about the fic. Asks came from @fancy-rock-dove, @quillingwords, @kulapti, and myself! (I THINK I got all of them--tumblr's search function is finnicky even on its best days, so so sorry if I missed something T_T) I first got hooked into reading this fic because of one of these asks, so I'm very fond of this section in particular :D
For Meta, I included two wonderful essays written by @pastrypuppy (also known as @kulapti) about Hob as an author figure and the Disrupted Fisher King narrative in MSW. Her analyses were so fascinating and I just had to include them in the book! (And thank you as well for your permission, friend!) (also hello fellow Renegade comrade 🫡)
For Selected Comments, I owe everything to (once again :3) @fancy-rock-dove, whose insights are the epitome of transformative fandom at work. I'd look for their comments after I read every chapter to see what their takes were on this or that element of the story, and every single time I would go "!!!!! I didn't even realize!!!" or "OOOOOOOH I hadn't thought of that!!" It was like being in a lecture hall and always whipping your head around when one of your classmates raised their hand, because you knew they were going to say something fascinating that you hadn't considered before.
Aside from one of my own comments, Dove's comments make up the entirety of this section (for which I owe you my life--your long-form responses to fics are a gift to this world) but GOSH was it also so much fun going through the comments section while typesetting and seeing all the keyboard smashing, yelling, and crying from the other commenters. Communal nature of storytelling and ongoing meaning-making of fanfiction, babey!
And finally for Chapter Heading Art: Process: once again Dove coming in clutch with some wonderful insights into the design of each of the chapter heading art pieces! This kind of stuff is honestly my favorite: meta about art for a fic which is, in turn, a transformation of an existing story (not even to mention that The Sandman is its own kind of fanfiction of existing mythologies and histories)--I just!! Think it's all really, really neat :'D (for more coherent/polished thoughts on this pls see my introduction asjdfkls)
ART
The art gallery!!! A million thanks to @fishfingersandscarves, @honeyseller, @jazzpsych, @doctor-rainbowfoxey, and (HI AGAIN DOVE) @fancy-rock-dove for granting me permission to include all of your beautiful pieces!
As usual for artworks in my binds, I printed each piece out on specialty photo paper to really make the colors pop, then sewed each page separately to the text block! Behold, everyone's beautiful beautiful pieces!
The art gallery also satisfies the certain "oooh shiny" part of my brain that always activates when I see pictures in a book, so am also very fond of this section :3
CONSTRUCTION
And now on to the nitty gritty stuff! I used the German Bradel binding technique again, my second time using it. Even though it's more complicated than the case bind, I really love how it gives you the full board space for the cover designs (~it's free real estate~). Keep it a secret but I kiiiiiiind of made a small goof in the last few steps (I did the turn-ins a step too early and so had to paste an extra sheet of cardstock to secure the spine to the boards, whoopsie), but it's a pretty small difference, aesthetically speaking, so it wasn't the end of the world XD
Edges are once again fake gilded, but this time I tried something new with the colors! I did two layers of acrylic paint--one watered down shade of red for the base, then one metallic gold on top of that. I really like the red/gold effect! I'll have to keep experimenting with this kind of layering:
ALSO. Y'ALL! I think I'm finally getting the hang of endbands!!! Many thanks to the folks at Renegade who hosted all the endband workshops last month--I'm still working through them, but even the few sessions I've seen have been TREMENDOUSLY helpful. I learned that tension is Very Important, as well as thread thickness, so I tried doubling my thread and keeping a Very Close Eye on how I was holding the threads while doing the beads. And behold! I still have a ways to go (and one day I would LOVE to do the fancier designs), but I'm v happy with the progress I've made so far!
And finally the covers!! ARCHIVAL MOD PODGE MY BELOVED. I printed on the same matte presentation paper that I used for the art, then did several coats of archival matte mod podge + a pass of gloss mod podge over the title strip to make it ~shiny~. Then once those had dried and I'd adhered them to the boards, I sprayed two layers of matte clear acrylic sealer (also mod podge!) to finish it off. I had some issues with the paper tearing when I handled it before it was fully dry, but luckily the blemishes were small enough that it was easy to do spot corrections with my black acrylic paint. And now I know to be more patient next time LOL
(some non-photoshoot shots that show the shine a little better!)
FINAL THOUGHTS
I had a lot of thoughts while I was binding this book--about Sandman fandom, about Dreamling fandom, about the Odyssey, about storytelling, about fanbinding, about Binderary, about Renegade, about my friends--but really what came to mind the most was gratitude!
Simply put, I'm so grateful to everyone I've met both in this fandom and throughout the years I've been active online--this is SO fun, y'all. It's so much fun to love stories together--to talk about them, to write them, and of course to bind them! I hope I've adequately conveyed that gratitude.
But of course, this book would not exist without the wonderful words of @moorishflower. Heather, thank you so, SO much for sharing your stories, thoughts, and time with us--it is always a happier, better day when I get an email notif from you and when I see you on my dash. I love your work so much, and I'm so happy I finally get to put it on my shelf! So thank you so much again, for everything <3
and OKAY THAT'S IT FROM ME FOLKS!!!!! Binderary 2023 is officially a wrap! I had SUCH a blast--will probably write up a reflection post on it uhhhh after I take a very long nap ajslkdfjslk _(:3」∠)_
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Here, it's simple: you and me and your dead brother are all swimming in the sick stillness of the water after the storm.
Titles: Mrs. Eaves
Body text: Garamond
Case title: OCR A Extended
3,079 words | 108 pages
Binderary book 2 (these are absolutely not in order of when I finished them. This was a frantic ten-minute case-in on the morning of the 27th before being three minutes late to work because I was washing my glue brush.): Pacific Rim is a story that went inside my ribcage and my brainstem and won't ever leave. It was my first exposure to a character who's dead from the beginning and who haunts the story for the rest of it and I think about Yancy Becket every two days and I will for the rest of my life. And thus, from there, I get here, where "my name is Becket and I didn't ask to be your gravestone. Like I wanted this, Becket, I swear to fucking god" is just a line that is tattooed on my brain. I've cried over this fic a bunch of times. It makes me feel ice-cream-scooped out in the middle of my chest. I love it and it needed to be in printed form.
More pictures/design/process under the cut.
Design and Construction
Case and covers: Flat-back case binding with bradel board covers and spine. This was my first time experimenting with layered materials for the case, because I wanted to mirror the missing pieces that are such a prominent part of the vibes of the fic to me, and oh boy. Layer 1 was on the front board, Hollander's Mango Leaf tissue in blue. Layer 2 was a full-cloth binding with Hollander's pearl linen cloth in charcoal grey, with the upper left half of the title text cut out using a Cricut. Layer 3 was again on the front board, Hollander's Lokta paper in natural. All of the title text was cut out with a Cricut and then I ripped the paper in half (an ordeal) and glued it down with a glue stick. I chose to tear the front because there's a lot of imagery of being torn free versus letting go in Pacific Rim in general, and this fic specifically, and yknow, it felt right.
Insides: No endbands; the book was too small for the pre-sewn ones to work. Endpapers are black cardstock and torn Lokta paper. The casing in was done with PVA, gluing a small tongue of the black cardstock to the case, and then I glued the torn Lokta paper over the rest of the bare board to create a faux endpaper. The torn papers are the same idea that I mentioned with the cover. The front paper is a torn piece of a whole - Raleigh, after Yancy. Mako, after her parents, after Stacker. Yancy. The back is a set of torn pieces pasted back together - Raleigh-and-Mako, without the people they've lost. Yancy, after. I don't know. I think about this a lot.
(Also, I'll come clean. The black ink on the back endpaper is eyeliner. My deepest most sincere apologies to any archivists. I don't own black ink and it was three in the morning.)
Typesetting
Typeset was done in InDesign. It's nothing fancy. Grief, in real life, and in the way that it is in Pacific Rim too, is a stark thing, and I wanted to reflect that. So, no headers, no page numbers even, and just plain black page breaks for each of the numbered sections. Garamond, my beloved.
We All Do It, or, the Mistakes Section
Honestly, this was one enormous oops after another. Since the book's so small each page had to be cut out individually and I won't even get started on the number of mistakes I made doing that. Then I utility knife trimmed and sanded down the edges maybe six times because I couldn't achieve a straight line (I had to change my knife blade. This did not occur to me). The top margin is like 1.3 times bigger than the bottom margin. The Lokta paper faux endpapers were because I cut the original cardstock papers an inch too short and didn't feel like cutting them again.
And then the big one...I measured for the case and then didn't write down which measurement was width and which was height. The case is literally the wrong orientation and I didn't realize until I put the block in and the top/bottom margins were wrong. I'm so fucking lucky that the margins were already so small that the block covered all the exposed board so I just cased in anyway but I did have to sit on my floor in despair for a good ten minutes.
Here's the French link in progress because I didn't want to end on my series of fuck-ups. This was incredibly fun but I never want to make a book this small again. That's a lie. It's going to happen again but better. <3
In the Crowd by this_wayward_life, binding by DCB Bindery (dontcallmebree)
Summary:
Steve honestly doesn't know how Bucky talked him into it. Sure, it's basically impossible for him to say no to Bucky - not when Bucky bats those big, silver eyes at him and pouts his lips - but an orgy?
But he'd said yes, because Steve is an idiot, and he's been in love with Bucky for twenty years.
Specs:
Three piece bradel binding, straight back, bookcloth spine covering, french link sewing, sewn white endpapers, 15 pages, A6.
A heart-warming favorite, probably the sweetest take on this subject matter possible. Thanks so much @wayward-lives for letting me bind this gem!
On the process:
For my second Binderary project, a lot of the design centered around this pattern I felt fit the narrative perfectly, especially in typesetting the page numbers and page break. I also really wanted to emphasize the pattern by creating symmetry in the full cover, which I thought a three-piece bradel would suit.
A detail I particularly liked was having the title on the cover and the author on the spine. Something about the clean look was really pleasing!
Grantaire is earnest in this, and it’s heartbreaking. Enjolras can’t look away. This is just a rehearsal. Grantaire is still wearing skinny jeans. They have lights and phones and textual analysis and thousands of years of history between now and then and yet–
When Grantaire speaks, the distance collapses.
(Grantaire as Hamlet.)
Title: Middle Ages Deco
Headers/Accents: Letter Gothic Standard
Body text: Adobe Caslon Pro
Case title: Goudy Initialen
38,667 words | 224 pages
Binderary book 1: a long-favourite EXR fic. I love wild Les Mis AUs and I love Shakespeare and this is all of that in such a lovely lovely form. Stage manager Enjolras is inspired. Also, I've been frothing at the mouth to use my special blackletter fonts and go suuuper overboard designing and this was Perfect for that purpose.
More pictures/design/process under the cut.
Design and Construction
Case: Flat-back case binding with bradel board covers and spine. The spine cloth is Hollander's pearl linen in charcoal grey. The painted titles were done in Amsterdam acrylic ink in silver, with a pair of scissors because I don't own a painting brush and likely never will. The cover papers are printed on 80gsm white printer paper and glued with a regular Elmer's glue stick and PVA on the turn-ins, and the whole case is sprayed with workable fixatif to (hopefully) preserve it longer-term.
Covers: The front and back covers were designed in Photoshop. The centre image is a William Morris pattern, and the top and bottom little circles are Renaissance printer's ornaments (pngs by the lovely @helle-bored of Renegade Bindery) that I vectorized in Illustrator (Illustrator and I were sworn enemies until this month. Now we're forced friends. Like enemies to lovers).
Insides: Endpapers are a William Morris pattern recoloured in Photoshop to be a richer green and red, obv, for EXR. Printed with inkjet on 80gsm printer paper and glued to gold cardstock, and sewn into the textblock. Endbands are pre-sewn from Hollanders, dyed gold with acrylic ink to match the endpapers.
Typesetting
Typeset was done in InDesign. This is a one-shot with scene breaks, so to match the theatre theme of the piece I replaced the horizontal line breaks with flagged scene numbers. I tried to strike a balance in the typesetting between classic Shakespearean aesthetic with the blackletter drop caps and cover fonts versus what you might see in a theatre script book with the monospace accents. The title spread uses a transparent decorative frame, again from Helle's collection; the large box in the middle with the title was part of the original frame and then I duplicated and resized it for the author name and my imprint.
We All Do It, or, the Mistakes Section
I somehow managed to print the cover papers nine inches tall and didn't see a problem with it until they came off the printer. Truly who knows how that happened.
I was working on the case at two in the morning and cut the spine cloth the wrong length three separate times...earned the measure once cut twice badge big time for that one.
The endpapers were an ordeal and a half for real. What I learned: print them too big and glue the cardstock to the back, then trim the paper to size, not the other way around otherwise you'll end up with big ugly gaps where the trimming was a few millimeters off. Whoops.
And...more pictures
I'm particularly pleased with how the covers here came out so here's closeups. Also, the arc on the spine that you can see in the endband on the last one is really pleasing to me lol I fought a war trying to get the flatback hinge calculations right.
Binderary! I already spoiled how this went last night, but now let's review how it went with slightly nicer words and slightly nicer pictures. And, as a special treat at the end, I even have a spreadsheet.
Last winter, I expressed a vague desire to do a speed test, and see if I could sustain a pace of a book per day for an entire month. Text harvesting, typesetting, everything. This was at the stage where backing books was a terrifying leap of faith rather than a mildly tedious chore, and I'd never tried leather. I had a cricut, but had been too nervous to use it yet. And I did it! In fact, in pursuit of nice round numbers, I hit 30! I didn't realize, but the month wrapped right around my one year anniversary of starting bookbinding, and those projects landed me somewhere in the 130s of total books bound (my tracking spreadsheet has gaps and also needs a revamp).
This year, I had progressed a lot. I had gotten much more ambitious with my projects and was a MUCH better typesetter. I was confident I could hit exceed thirty, so instead I thought I would see how quickly I could do it. This was a fantastic plan, because work had me so exhausted and strung out that I accidentally started february a day early. Doing great. I pushed on so I wouldn't get an artificial rest and set my deadline at the 27th. Then.... in 13 days I hit 28, and all it took was one joking poke, asking if I thought I could average two books per day. It sank in. My brain ADORES ridiculous artificial conditions. I just Had to do it. I was emotionally invested. Anyways! I'm flirting with genuine burnout, but I DID IT, BABY. Last night I hit sixty!
SIXTY BOOKS! Five in leather! One in denim! One in velvet! Two edge marbled! One over a thousand pages! Three cnovels! All but one book cover done with my existing stash of paper, fabric, and leather! That one exception was tian ya ke where I knew which fabric I wanted, and I had precut pieces in my stash, but I wanted to fussy cut alignment on the fabric so I went out to buy more, hahaha
I did ease up my initial self-imposed rules a little, just because like forty books in, the concept of STORIES stopped meaning anything. I went hilariousuly numb. It's like semantic satiation, but for a concept. Stories? Never heard of em in my life. So when fics has multiple authors I wanted to gift them to, I made multiples and each counted as a separate book. Other books here were anthologies of a couple dozen stories, counted as one book. So I didn't stress it. I am legit more burned out than I wanted to be, I wasn't going to find EXTRA unnecessary reasons to push and make it worse. This was a fantastic achievement, and I'm really so proud of myself right now. My last svsss was book 201, and these are 202-261. This is just under a quarter of the books I've ever bound. I am EXTREMELY proud of this.
Now for dessert. SPREADSHEET. I'm redacting all the books and authors, because some of these are gifts and if i do decide to fully spoil the surprise, I'm at least going to do it with individual glamour shots. For now, this is what we've got. Please note the right three columns, where I tracked the total numbers of stories, words, and pages in here. Mistakenly saving the villain (part two) is the one that counts as 0 stories because it's split across two volumes, but everything else should make sense, I think. I did PRETTY DARN GOOD
Binderary week 3! This is the magical Flower King by @landwriter <3 Gorgeous art by @fishfingersandscarves (thank you for letting me include it!)
This fic is the epitome of fairy tale Dreamling! It plays with the traditional fairy tale structure in delightful ways and has just the most beautiful winter atmosphere. Gloam's prose is so musical and haunting--truly the best kind of story to tell around a fire, or tucked up warm in bed!
Details and more pics under the cut <3
This one was so much fun to design! The fic takes place in the winter so I really wanted to give the book a pale blue/silver color scheme, but the title is also Flower King (and for good reason ehe--the cold has to give way to warmth at some point :3), so I also went for a green/red title page. I also leaned into the fairy tale setting with these really pretty border assets to separate each section of the fic:
The first section pictured above--and YES it ends with "THE END" but it is certainly not the end ehe. Some of that delightful play with the traditional fairy tale structure I mentioned earlier!
I also tried to mirror the progression of the events of fic with the colors of the borders. It starts out with pale/frosty blue for part I, turns to stark black and white for the very short part II, then to increasingly richer hues of blue with parts III and IV, until finally green for the return of spring/summer in part V:
I also had a lot fun with the decals on the cover, which I painted with metallic acrylic in silver, green, and blue! Not a perfect paint job baha but I really liked how it came out. You can also see the ~rainbow~ effect of the holographic HTV I used for the cover/spine titling here as well:
The edges are also fake gilded with the same metallic acrylic paint, buuuuuuut the lighting in my bathroom (where I took these photos, crouched and muttering over the fabric I used for the backdrop LOL (which I bought on clearance at Joann's for a dress I will make...one day ajslkdfjs)) made it kind of hard to photograph T_T so here it is again at my desk!
And that's all from me for this week! One more Binderary book to go, which I hope to have up before the month is out :3 (Well, hopefully. Four days may be a bit optimistic but by god I am going to try XD)
And of course, all my love and thanks to Gloam for giving me permission to bind her fantastic work <333 It was a pleasure, and I'm so happy to have your writing on my shelf!
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For any fanbinders or bookbinders on here feel free to join us - it's a bookbinders' version of Nanowrimo!
The goal is simple - set yourself your own challenge for the month of February and bind, experiment, or go as feral as you want in your bookbinding journey. We’ve put together some rough categories here for people if they’d like to follow but really this is just our effort to create some awesome conversation pieces and art in the community.
Throughout February, we will be hosting workshops and discussions about bookbinding and fanbinding, all for free. The topics covered will be everything from different binding styles to how to typeset in various programs to paper marbling to fandom history to the chemistry of bookbinding. If you would like to join us, there is a link to our Discord located on our Carrd.
Feel free to tag any of your creations or mishaps or cool ideas with #Binderary2023.
Once again, I'm running further behind than I wanted to be, but I said I was going to do geometry to this thing, and goshdarnit, when has being redundant stopped me before.
Only, I don't think I'm being entirely redundant. I've seen other people do the basic geometry, but I wanted to come up with something that was completely customizable, from the viewing angle to the size of the hinge gaps. I wanted something that would work for books that were too large to be traced and drawn directly onto my available boards (cough cough, my latest wip).
I'm not dumping that entire writeup in a tumblr post, because I'm a dirty filthy engineer who littered the entire thing with subscripts and greek letters. I had such a good time, I'm not sorry at all. But here's what I do have for you. I made a nice diagram writeup of my dimensions and the equations that drive them. Tumblr's resolution may sabotage me, so a link to a google drive pdf copy will follow
Here's a copy of the final version of my handwritten notes that drove this, which I share for my personal satisfaction
And now, here's a link to a google doc describing my process, equations included, and including a partial discussion of how to assemble the case.
LECTERN BOOK CASE DESIGN Case Layout Diagram (Full Size At Link) https://drive.google.com/file/d/1QlycJjwsweGxPmR0InFTpqy9DXLIfDnB/view?usp=
This still isn't quite as accessible as I would like it to be, I do want to have a version of this that someone who DOESN'T bind books can still follow. I'm in the middle of building a prototype that will hold a standard three-ring binder. I'm going to keep working on that, but I think my personal life is about to get bananas, and I don't want to just leave this sitting on my computer taking up space.
Like with the fore edge painting slideshow, I'm not an expert, and I'm not the final word. I worked out this process for my own satisfaction, and the next step in satisfying myself is that I want to enable more people to do cool things. Take this, copy it to other platforms, share it with your friends, hoard it on your hard drive if you think it will be useful. It would be cool to get named for credit if you repost it, but that's not my main priority here. This is what I have for now, and I want to share it! Anyone who tries this, have fun!!!
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My completed bind for our @renegadepublishing annual gift exchange! Bound for @fanboundbooks. Pictures of the innards below the cut, as always!
Hand-sewn endbands, done from a silk-finish cotton sewing thread and worsted weight yarn coated with PVA for the core. We also have a hand-drawn frontispiece illustration I did just for this binding, and a vellum flyleaf to be extra fancy. I had to remake this case 3 times and if I said I wasn't a little glad to get this project completed, I'd be lying lol. Thank you for looking!
So I really love 00q as a pairing - when done right it's absolute perfection. After reading Oh Mercy I Implore, I knew I had to bind it.
This is the third book of binderary for me - I still have 10 more books to go!
More photos under the cut.
Statistics:
149,791 words || 475 pages
Body text: Liberation Serif, 11 points
Titling/chapter font: Bestaline Sans
I've been meaning to outline my design process for how I decide to books which I'll outline in another post.
Cover done in Neenah Illusio Laser in Cambric, headbands done in 2 colour silk, stitchery on spine using dark gold linen thread, and completed with Cricut Gold Foil HTV.
Next up for me is finishing the Hannibal bind - a bit of snafu with buying precut bookboard in the wrong direction means I have quarto books in my future.
