A collection of hand bound books created by ML Townsend of Towns End Bindery (@towns_end_bindery on Instagram). I also reblog books I think are pretty.
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I made a photobook/guest book for my upcoming wedding. It's pictures from our engagement shoot. I left plenty of space on some pages so people could sign it and stuff. This was my first time working with leather. I feel like I cheated a lot. I ask for a friend in NY to prepare the leather down, and they also used their home laser engraver to burn out the design I made on the cover.
I fear no one in my personal life would appreciate my interest in werewolves but I made all of my paperback books into hardcovers and made pretty little holo and metallic things for them. Someone must see them.
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And The Goddess Said Let There Be Chaos by itsultraviolet
Several years ago, my family received a box of luxury chocolates. It was held in a custom-made case that had a plastic window, looked as if it belonged to a century past, and had a magnetic flap to close the lid.
Seeing the container, I resolved that it was too-well made to just be thrown away. Instead, I'll make a custom book that will fit into the box and match with its theme of bygone eras past.
It will take me nearly 2 years.
I have known of the 'and the goddess said let there be chaos' SBI series ever since the height of the Dream SMP. In fact, I made my very first ficbind ever in 2023 for this series, although the result was never documented on this blog.
Nevertheless, I wanted to revisit this fic series where Philza becomes a dad to the fae. The descriptions of magic and forestry made for a vivid visual and I sought to achieve that look by finding the most vivid color image for the cover. Magic in the fic series has an oily, colorful, and cloying vibe - the same vibe as with the image I found for said cover.
As for the pages, I wanted the paper, text, and decorations to feel like old woodblock prints to present a medieval vibe, as if Philza himself wrote down the letters, cut up the pages, and pressed woodblocks in ink to bedight what he wrote down. I looked through literal hundreds of patterns, designs, images, and templates to find the ones that fit this theme and will often delete previous designs if I found a better one.
This took me to go on-and-off with this project for weeks and months at a time as I completed other binds or embark on new projects.
The very text too was something I was particular about. There were parts such as the fic summaries that I wanted to look as if Philza himself handwrote the letters. There were other parts where I want the letters to look lush and beautiful (see the drop caps). I also want to preserve the fic metadata and make them fit into the medieval aesthetic, which meant using a different font instead of the main text font.
It took a lot of trial and error but in the end, I managed to find the right combination of text fonts and styles to make them all flow together.
I also wanted to carry over something I did from my 2023 bind - a collage of leaves, branches, and stems that I used to decorate my very first bookbind. I wanted to bring them into this book as a reminder of how far I have come in my bookbinding skills, and how much this fic series meant to be back then.
All in all, this entire book project from beginning to end took 1 year, 9 months, and 21 days. There were a lot of mistakes and corrections I made along the way, but now, at least, one of the longest projects I have ever undertaken is finally complete!
Special thanks to itsultraviolet for writing this fic series!
I put in so much effort into this one, and while I do think it's "good" work, I feel a little dissatisfied, as though the way it looks doesn't actually reflect all the time and labor and frustration that I poured into it.
The book cloth is either Library Summit Maroon or Allure Mahogany from Hollanders (I cannot remember which). The cover is entirely my own original hand drawn design, which I foiled by hand. The endpapers are Italian marbled paper from 32NorthSupplies. The endbands are handsewn using Silk Perle Thread. And finally, the edges of the book were sanded down with an orbital sander, then painted using liquid graphite mixed with a few drops of gold calligraphy ink, then burnished with agate, and then sealed with beeswax. It's not visible in the photos, but the graphite edges do shine in the light and the calligraphy ink adds a glitter sparkle to them.
genuine writers getting wrongly accused of using ai because of witch hunt and proper grammar/structure in their works must be what being a woman in the 1600s who is wrongly accused of being a witch because she can read and is intelligent feels like
The good news is that it was much easier than I was expecting. So if you know how to make a regular cover, you'll be able to do this one π
For the closure, I used a snap closure button of an old file folder and glued it with hot glue - I've tried super glue and uhu glue as well but it didn't work.
I've also added some inserts just for fun. π«Ά
You can read the fic on AO3:
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
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ficbinding archive: master of the universe / fifty shades of grey
the story:
Master of the Universe by SnowQueens Icedragon (2009)
published as Fifty Shades of Grey by EL James (2011)
an early-state printing of the original Writers Coffee Shop edition, likely second or third state due to the presence of the roman numeral I along the spine. FSOG was eventually acquired and republished by Vintage Books, Bloom Books, and Random House. Hardcover editions were released in the UK by Century in 2012 in a signed limited-edition run. the original release of FSOG was on kindle and is believed to have contributed to the widespread adoption of the e-reader as a device.
archive notes:
fan-created cover page from the archive on Perusing the Shelves
fifty shades of grey: the reddit origins essay (Fanlore)
Fifty shades of exploitation: Fan labor and Fifty Shades of Grey (Journal of Transformative Works)
this bind includes only the seventy chapters that approximate the first book in the fifty shades trilogy
Fated Mates S03.03: Fifty Shades of Grey by EL James: Romance Has Gotten Hotter And I Think I Like It
the binding:
rounded and backed casebinding (adapted/faux three-piece bradel binding with french groove)
oxford hollow spine
printed on churchpaper 24# warm white ("bookbinder's special")
made endbands
dubletta bookcloth
all interior text is rendered in Alegreya
there is a palimpsest on each chapter heading (and on the front cover) calling back to the original twilight fandom
the cover design is to reference the new kind of cover--the object cover--ushered in by the print publication of FSOG. for a time after initial publication, certain sub-genres of romance would utilize an object on the cover, often denoting erotica or BDSM-adjacent plots.
Measures and base design for the cover done, next thing to do will be to let it sit overnight, all the pages under weight so they're pressed the next day.
I'll keep the finished design for myself until the day I finish this π
Tomorrow will be stitching day and first layer of glue on the spine + hopefully finishing the cover
Evening Empire by fluorescentgrey / @yeats-infection (bound with permission)
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Remus pulled the printout from the machine. Lily was leaning over his shoulder with a joint.
When I first learned that books used to be sold with pages uncut, leaving readers to slice them open with a knife and creating the deckle edges you see in many books, I immediately thought how exciting it would be to have a horror story in this format. It's like a form of personal communication with the story, the cuts getting more and more rushed and haphazard as you reach the climax. I knew there was only one story that could be such a perfect fit, Evening Empire which left me thinking about it and feeling so much dread for days on end.
Video of a page cutting and more details under!
(sorry for my unmoisturized claw hands)
I chose a sharp lime green color for the top edge foil and ribbon to reference Avada Kedavra and the ships' beams. The designs on the cover and end pages are real crop circles found at important places mentioned in the story. The title page image is the infamous "Mowing Devil" from 1678, which honestly shook me when I first saw it. I had a lot of fun picking out the typography too for the various epistolary sections. Spine was shakily hand-painted. This was my first sextodecimo book format, and I love it for one shots! It's really the perfect size to throw into any bag and have a book to read on hand.
I know this is different to what I normally do but Iβve been working on bookbinding, made using bits of old sketchbooks and genuine leather from an unfinished cosplay project (which I first got as scraps from my local belt maker) οΏΌ
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Three books of Jane Austen fanworks that I finished last year. I wanted to create books in the same style that were as similar as possible to signify that they belong with each other. Luckily I had just enough of the bookcloth and paper (print).
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