#traceability

Some new things were done - I made my first quarto and first cut-out. I bound Sigh No More by @dhampir72 - which was an exercise in persistence (and frustration).

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20,231 words || 84 pages

Body text: Liberation Serif, 9 point

Accents: Lemon Milk

I was inspired by the themes of the fic - about loneliness and welcome homes and the setting of the fic partly taking place in planes and airports, and wanted to make a cutout reminiscent of a plane window. the fic ends on such a bittersweet, pensive note that i tried to emulate that in the bind.

However, i was stymied so many times by the frigging cutout- the bind was so cursed because i tore the cut out so many times. i don't have a colour printer and was forced to make two trips to do my printing on a colour printer. i used handmade (and by that, i mean by me) marbled paper that I made in a marbling class as my endpapers. they don't necessarily match, but i love the non-pareil pattern and i so badly wanted to use it.

I also used french double core endbands - matching the insert's colours - had some good fun with it - though i have been very rusty and don't quite remember the steps for endbands. I also used some lovely duo elster supplied by @pleasantboatpress when we did a bind trade, we also traded bookcloth and resources and i love this colour of duo!

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