#chiyogami

DELVE: A Solo Map Drawing Game

Full cloth binding with paper onlay (Bradel binding)

WIP - sacred bodies

Full cloth binding with paper onlay

Wdym I already bound that story? It's not my fault I had another idea for Sacred Bodies that I could not leave alone. Looking at this detail on the sleeve I had a chiyogami paper that was too close a match to not use it.

I picked the parts to cut away pretty much on the go. I knew what parts needed to go for the title and the look I was going for with the onlay so I cut, checked, marked the size of the case on the back of the paper, cut some more, checked, cut more, checked. Until I was happy with the result.

This time I added enough glue to make the paper stick... a little bit too much though. I got a glue stain on the back of the cover. I still love how the case turned out, but still -_-

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Hand-bound journals with Chiyogami and Florentine endpapers

Katsuzi Matsumoto Supplement to Shojo no tomo Chiyogami (Japanese paper with coloured figures)

My comic, Upstream, made as part of my 2025 thesis work at The Center for Cartoon Studies. It is a 30 page accordion bound comic about a salmon and a bear refusing to do what is expected of them. You can read it HERE. 18+ only. The physical book was made to try and replicate the body of a salmon. Photos of the book are down below.

My silly Dan Heng notebook from a few months ago made me fall in love with this strange format for notebook. It's definitely perfect for quotes and stray thoughts, and make for perfect emergency Christmas present!

I made these away from my workshop, with very limited resources and time for two friends I didn't expect to attend the Christmas party I'd be at. Spine is Colorado bookcloth, supple enough to open the books flat. Cover is chiyogami that a friend brought back from Japan; however, the paper squares I had were not wide enough to make full endpapers with, so I cheated. I was pleasantly surprised at how sturdy it ended up being.