#chapter headers

Bonus:

The technique for both sides was stamping the title with brass letters and heated blocking press wherever I felt like it. I tried it blind tooled first, but that barely showed so I went for a white foil instead If you look closely you can see that one cover has been tooled first white then black and the other first black and then white. Both has nice effects, but I find the black over white is easier to read. Another thing I'd do differently the next time is the time when I hot stamp. This time I had the case completely finished. Tooling would have been a lot easier (and adjustable) if I had tooled that cardboard ahead, cut it to size and glued on after that.

Another thing that I noticed is that the boards warp slightly. Out of the 2 options it could warp, this is the favourable one. I'd still rather have it not warp at all. I know the one-sided pasting of (end) papers causes it, but I'm not yet sure how to oppose it. Perhaps the sequence of what is glued to what makes a difference. I shall mark down what exactly I did the next time. Perhaps working from the inside out and letting each of the layers stretch and relax before laminating them on might work.

Speaking of layers. I like how that worked out a lot. 3 layers of board, grey-blue-grey, perhaps red would have been a better choice, seeing how that pops out, but I didn't have a nice red the same shade as the cloth (just as I did not have a blue the shade of the blue board) and I wanted something blue again to take up the colouring of the chapter headers.

For the chapter headers I picked up the idea of steps, first I thought stairs. Following the many pictures of the myth that show Orpheus and Eurydice on their way out of the Underworld. This story is more about how both grow apart though, so I went for a picture to reflect that.