Towns End Bindery

heart shaped notebook, hand painted cover over cotton canvas

it was neat to make something new, I was pretty burnt out out of making books because I started making them for fairs and had to make a lot of simmilar ones, but hand painting covers brought some joy for doing that again

I had some leftover slipcase fabric and two UK paperbacks with the wrong grain directions, so I decided to recase those too.

Oh god not again! By Sarah1281

Here are the stills of my most recent bind!

This classic was absolutely hilarious and I’m absolutely obsessed!

So, the cover was meant to mimic the Hogwarts- A History book design, as it’s brought up many times in the story, but I made it as if it was some Potter merch. 😅

I used scraps of genuine leather for the spine and corners, and I scanned marble paper I had at home to print it on bookcloth for the cover. (I would have used the actual marble paper but I didn’t have enough of it)

I made 50+ silly doodles to illustrate the story, as if someone sketched them out of boredom on the margins of a schoolbook with a feather quill.

The dust jacket is meant to fit Harry’s merch line from the story. Designing it was half the fun, and I was heavily inspired by the classic Mina Lima aesthetics.

🫧 Handmade journal "Bubble gumpowder"

I just received the best birthday present ever of my entire life

My wonderful partner hand bound my favorite fan fiction by the amazing Leaves_Of_Autumn

Rainbow Sterek Violet brings you (not so) Pure Imagination by theroguesgambit @halekingsourwolf. A nice and spicy fic with shared fantasies but with a twist!

I had a lot of fun with playing around with the text on the cover for this one, and am really happy with the result.

I got the chapter number frames from pngtree and recolored them to match the purple theme.

My latest bind - one of my slightly more recent longfics, Something Like That. (Yes, title taken from the Tim McGraw song 😅 ).

Usual progress pics and discussions under the cut!

Now I'd didn't just bind this book cause I read it as a kid, most of the ones I'm planning on binding are things I haven't read yet.

But a friend I haven't seen in a while was having a baby shower today, and he's the one that originally lent me this book, back when I was like, 13 or so.

Hopefully he enjoys it, hopefully it doesn't fall apart, and maybe his kid will enjoy it in a decade or so

Some thoughts

-kinda choked at the last minute, damaged the bookcloth in a spot by pressing to hard when defining the spine crease. Also forgot to print the label on the good printer so just rubbing it down wore it significantly

-Wish I'd put endbands on, also, the block wasn't exactly centered vertically

-Funny thing was, formating the text took far longer than the binding

Things to think on for my next project

-Want to figure out how to do more interesting covers and endpapers

-Used sewed banding

-perhaps round the back

The work of Marius Michel father & son, Parisian bookbinders

Почти где луна by KNDRT

Many thanks to @armoredsuperheavy for recommending this super fun fic!

This is a rus-real AU (and if you don’t know what that means then lucky you) which immediately gave me IDEAS for the design.

🏢 So here we have my interpretation of Benjamin Elbel’s pixel binding, with the cover made out of 56 separate pieces of bookboard (with the basic square being 32x32mm), with staircase colored bookcloth and grey leather stamped (with handmade lino stamps) and painted to look like a classic Soviet era panel building.

🏢 The inner cover is red suede which is very fun because the pixel cover leaves these cute imprints in the soft suede.

🏢 The typesetting is relatively tame, with chapter names done in a stencil font (like something you might find painted on a rusty garage door), and the body font being Century Schoolbook, because of vibes.

I am done with six out of seven of the Austen rainbow, the only one missing is Mansfield Park. I had originally considered going red for the book, but I searched my stack of fabrics high and low, and could not manage to find any piece of red I even remotely liked the look of. So instead, I am going to make her a blue-ish green.

Two Fanbindings of Andy Weir's Project Hail Mary (one in english, one in german) as a coupled twin-binding for me and my bestie who went to see the movie with me immediately when I expressed my wish for it! (Which is why the location mark is blacked out, thats the cinema we went to!)

While browing I saw these two papers and knew i needed to use them for endpapers. This also sparked my wish to bind this book at all. It took me around two months from conception to finished product.

Do you come back from conventions, art fairs and festivals with pockets full of loose stickers, or little paper bags that you immediately lose in your suitcase, or forget in a drawer when you get home? These little books provide a place to collect your stickers until you've found a permanent home for them - just stick them in and then peel them back out when you're ready, with minimal loss of stickiness!

Now in floral covers 😌🏵️🌸🌼

Finally got around to binding one of my favourite books ever, after procrastinating for over six months! I originally hadn't planned to make a dust jacket for this one (it became necessary to hide a error I made with the cover), so I was at a bit of a loss when it came to selecting the image for it. Luckily I came across a very nice promotional picture in the Motion Picture Herald for The Mark of Zorro (1940). It was originally yellow, so I edited it to match the cover of the book (one yellow dust jacket is enough, I think!) and I'm quite satisfied with the cherry red of the final product.