Towns End Bindery

Whatever Our Souls are Made Of by damagecontrol & solmussa. Cover based off the 1899 book “In Ghostly Japan” by Lafcadio Hearn. Typeset and design by me. 🌸

Back before I was a jegulus convert I knew I would be reading this Hanahaki fic because I am truly powerless against the yearn. The pine. And this fic is a classic for a reason - it is so so good.

I knew I needed a cover with flowers/blossoms and when I came across this gorgeous Sakura cover I thought “easy enough!” WRONG!! I am not exaggerating when I say I spent 10 hours on these covers - tracing, cutting, weeding, applying HTV to bookcloth and THEN applying to the case to get the seamless wrap around (so stressful). I was TIRED when all was said and done 😅 but I LOVE how they turned out. Honorable mentions to the sewn endbands and typeset details. So when I go on a paperback bender to decompress after a vintage bind, now you know 😉

Keep fanfiction free, freaky, and fuck joanne.

they are magical, please go get yourself one if you have a problem like me. thank you for making them @thispapercloud!!! (and sorry to tag you like on every platform, but i'm sure you know how it is lol)

PSA this was my first go at adding a hardcover to an old paperback book, so I picked something simple to try and test my materials on.

It's extremely badly done lmao and I need better calibration on my printer BUT I now know what types of paper work and how to improve next time.

Working on a way to create shiny covers. Considering lamination and varnishes.

Designed the cover myself etc.

The original paperback cover -> my hardback rebind.

I used ArmoredSuperHeavy's tutorial to format and print the text and then followed Eat0crow's instructions for binding it.

I am thinking this one and it’s on a big discount for the next day and a half, but before I place my order, has anybody seen any cool ones recently that I should consider? (I don’t want any art inspired by the movies but otherwise I’m open)

Batman - Borderline - Dark Version

This is a simple inverted version of the cover design I had already created. The original cover has a white background and black elements and text. I was curious about how it would look with a black background and white elements/text instead so I spent 6 minutes switching them all over.

Gotta end the month strong with MORE fanfic classics! 😅 look how many I made this month…

The Road to Sweetwater by @euripidestrousers

Sorry I’m Late - I Was Searching For You by @euripidestrousers

The Mystery of the Pears

My Almost Lover by Alarainai (maybe will remake this cover someday since they stopped using lunefish while I was binding this, but most likely won’t lol)

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.

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