Towns End Bindery

I finished my first book bind! I made two copies, one to keep and one for the author, because that's how it should be whenever possible. I learned a lot about the process on the way. There are things I know work, and things that I will change going forward.

Hand bound copy of The Prison of the Phoenix with accompanying fic Harry Potter and Malfoy's Suspicious New Interest by @wisteria-lodge and @niche-pastiche

The cover art i designed and made would not attach to the real leather so ill need to make a new cover, but thats what it looks like on a black matte board with the spine design

All art inside the book, including end papers and book divider was made by the author.

Dungeons and Dragons Journals

New decorative papers I picked up in Italy and Germany 🇮🇹🇩🇪

A Thing with Wings by paperpuffin (@clockwayswrites)

Everyone needs to admire my hand foiled cover of Piranesi NOW

(In progress shots under the cut)

I’ve wanted to bind For His Eyes Only since the first time I read it, and finally here it is! It’s not perfect but I’ve put so much love to it, I really wanted to share it here on tumblr specially at times like these 😭 (after the GO3 nightmare), thank you @afrenchwriter for your amazing writing and your presence on this fandom ❤️ it’s always a pleasure to create something inspired from your work or in this case to materialize it.

I can finally share my binding for Happy Death Race by @powerful-owl ! This fic is amazing and it has one of my favorite premises of all time, so I've wanted to bind it for a long time. I would recommend it to anyone who hasn't read it yet! :) I still remember the shock at THE plot twist and it only got better the second time I read it because it all came together so well. You're so talented Em!! There's this way the fic was written that mixes the dark theme and the magic of it all and also the air of vegas that I don't think can be replicated anywhere else. I recently saw someone say it could be turned into a movie and I agree so much!

I actually started making the typeset last year after a re-read, but I only had time to bind it this year a few weeks ago. It was a hell of a ride. This is just my second project so of course there are errors here and there, but that's the joy of it being handmade :)

The hardest part has definitely been making the cover. I suffered a lot trying to design it because of course I thought about using the vegas sphere but I wasn't talented enough for that, so I went the glitch sci-fi route, then the vegas atmosphere route (??), then the minimalistic route... I probably have like 60 pages in Canva and some more in Illustrator over the two months it took me to finally make a somewhat decent one. Something similar also happened with my first project, so my respect for graphic designers has increased exponentially. You all rock!

Thanks Em for sharing this amazing fic with everyone! I will definitely give it a reread now that I have it on my shelf. Love your writing so much! <333333333

If someone is curious, I used normal white bond paper for the interior, mate photo paper for the front and end papers, and adhesive laminated mate photo paper for the cover!

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.