so thicc. I can't believe I managed to get these square. I was worried I'd have to round them, which I didn't want to do because it broke with the squareback hardback aesthetic I had for the other books.

I had to leave my printer behind in London and buy a new one in Copenhagen and the new printer does Not like to print on bookcloth. it kept jamming and ruined the vol 2 cloth by tracking ink all over the jammed part, and while I did manage to put vol 1 through, it wound up so wrinkled I wasn't sure I would be able to smooth that out again. (I did, PVA moisture to the rescue once again. all hail PVA moisture and its ability to erase sins.) jesus fucking christ. also it's hard to tell but just above my bindery logo it does actually say 'del 1' and 'del 2' respectively lmao I was not thinking straight when I decided to print the title in red on red bookcloth. (in my defense it worked really well on dubletta!!)

headbands are from dubletta bookcloth edge cutoffs - when you buy bookcloth like you do fabric i.e. not in precut smaller sheets, it usually comes with a raw fabric edge. I trim it off and then salvage it, and often use it in place of mull on tiny books (like this one). I thought my dubletta yellow orange offcut would be a nice complement to the duo eruption especially because it had that small orange stripe at the edge and so I turned it into fake headbands with a core of glued up macramé - I couldn't be arsed sewing headbands and while my textblocks were very tidy and could've borne being naked, I just thought this would be, well, neat.

as mentioned, the printer fucked up, so I had to do something about vol 2. duo bookcloth has famously been discontinued so I didn't want to scrap it unless I absolutely had to (I only have the one sheet of this colour!!) so I mulled over options (paper inlay? maybe a rising sun with rays?) and discarded them all until I rediscovered the aforementioned takeo tant select paper in my stash. it's slightly translucent so I cut away the janky bit from the front of vol 2, laid down a 20mm strip of 160gsm canaletto cream which seemed to match the thickness of the duo bookcloth and then covered it with a 22mm strip of the yellow takeo tant select. no fancy inlays or whatever, just an off centre stripe down the front cover.

the dustjackets I made for the other volumes, which were normal, slim, volumes, were printed on this recycled paper cut to A4 size to go through the printer, which also left a decent enough amount of flaps for it to work for A6 dustjackets. these chonky bois.... I did consider not doing dustjackets (I mean, why hide away these bright af books??) but I decided I did want to protect them a little, and after poking about a bit I realised my printer supports printing on american paper sizes INCLUDING LEGAL (A4 is 210x297mm whereas legal is 216x356mm), SO:

CHECK IT OUT!!! and yes the creases are intentional - this paper was wrapped around a delivery so that's where the creases are from, and the idea behind these dustjackets for this fandom is to evoke a sense of old and dusty case files. so brown paper, creases, coffee stains.

I trimmed the jackets to be 155mm in height - the board height was 154 but with the bookcloth wrapping around the edges that means a final height of 155m - and wrapped them around the books and LO

I grossly miscalculated the placement of the back cover copy on both jackets LMAO and the neat trick of having a continuous perfect round coffee stain on the lined up spines also didn't quite work out but FUCK IT, I am DONE, I will not bind another book for probably 3 months.

final photo: SQUISH