#yaaayyyy

this bind went through a few different iterations--i got almost through the case drafting stage and literally the night before i was planning to start making cutouts in my boards i woke up at like 3AM and completely changed the entire design. it switched everything from a mostly full-cloth bind with a few minor details to a faux three-piece bradel (flatback) with bunch of moving parts, but it was totally worth it in the end.

the is fabric, mulberry, and lokta layered across 20pt, 50pt, and 70pt board with HTV titling and accents. there was a minor issue with the cover titling disappearing into the background but i went over it a second time in white slightly off-center to create a sort of drop shadow effect with the gold and i think it turned out really lovely.

the edges are hand-mixed speckled blue metallic paint and gold calligraphy ink with a 4mm gold silk bookmark, 10k gold clasp, and celestial charm. i sewed 2-thread, single-core medieval style endbands as usual, and the blue thread is a close match to the thread used to sew the textblock together.

the typset for this one was particularly fun. i found a bunch of different starmaps from the 1600-1800s and used them to accent the different chapter pages. there are nine total, each rotated three times across 23 chapters and the title page, showing the both the progression of time and tsukasen's relationship throughout the story. i also included ursa major/minor and orion constellation accents on empty rectos because i felt those were fitting for the characters.

here are a few additional typeset samples! and shoutout as always to my friends for listening to me lament about one thing or another on voicechat or in person--this time mostly about math, haha. until the next one!