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ehydeBinderary is February's bookbinding-intensive month, run by Renegade Bindery on discord. There are workshops and some people attempt to bind a frankly unhinged number of books.
I bound six during the month, which is a pretty nice increase over my usual pacing! All but one were nonstandard bindings, with less total amount of work, but they were experimental techniques so I think it evens out!
Bamboo slip scroll with pages bound inside: here the scroll is acting as a book cover. It's still flexible and since it has a small number of pages you can roll the whole thing up. Originally I hadn't planned on painting the cover but when it was empty it looked very bare, I didn't like it. The story I used to test this technique was the "first day as a second century warlord" post from tumblr.
Time travel fic with rearrangeable sections -- the pages are held in place like the paper in a "travelers notebook" only with string instead of elastic. They can be removed and placed in a different order. This is one of my own fics, told from the pov of a time traveler, currently the pages are in chronological order for the other characters.
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"The Scarlet Lotus" typeset file was given to me in an exchange last year, so I didn't design the interior. The cover is pretty simple but it's based on the US first edition of "The Scarlet Pimpernel," of which this fic is an AU.
Progression of the bamboo slip binding experimentation. This time I only used the bamboo for the spine, with a thicker book, and used hard boards for the cover. The way it works is that the cover and spine are made first, and the pages are sewn directly to the thick strings holding the cover together. This is "Devil Venerable Also Wants to Know" which I will admit choosing in large part because there was a ready-made typeset file available, but it's also a novel I enjoy a lot and it does heavily feature some plot-relevant books so hey, a binding that draws attention to itself is appropriate, right?
Speaking of bookbinding, I'm also offering a bound fanfic for the Fandom Trumps Hate crafts bazaar! The bidding has gotten intimidatingly high (this is a good thing! but I'm gonna be under so much pressure) but it's open till the 10th!
I bound six during the month, which is a pretty nice increase over my usual pacing! All but one were nonstandard bindings, with less total amount of work, but they were experimental techniques so I think it evens out!
Bamboo slip scroll with pages bound inside: here the scroll is acting as a book cover. It's still flexible and since it has a small number of pages you can roll the whole thing up. Originally I hadn't planned on painting the cover but when it was empty it looked very bare, I didn't like it. The story I used to test this technique was the "first day as a second century warlord" post from tumblr.
Time travel fic with rearrangeable sections -- the pages are held in place like the paper in a "travelers notebook" only with string instead of elastic. They can be removed and placed in a different order. This is one of my own fics, told from the pov of a time traveler, currently the pages are in chronological order for the other characters.
nter your cut contents here.
"The Scarlet Lotus" typeset file was given to me in an exchange last year, so I didn't design the interior. The cover is pretty simple but it's based on the US first edition of "The Scarlet Pimpernel," of which this fic is an AU.
Progression of the bamboo slip binding experimentation. This time I only used the bamboo for the spine, with a thicker book, and used hard boards for the cover. The way it works is that the cover and spine are made first, and the pages are sewn directly to the thick strings holding the cover together. This is "Devil Venerable Also Wants to Know" which I will admit choosing in large part because there was a ready-made typeset file available, but it's also a novel I enjoy a lot and it does heavily feature some plot-relevant books so hey, a binding that draws attention to itself is appropriate, right?
Speaking of bookbinding, I'm also offering a bound fanfic for the Fandom Trumps Hate crafts bazaar! The bidding has gotten intimidatingly high (this is a good thing! but I'm gonna be under so much pressure) but it's open till the 10th!
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Date: 2025-03-08 12:54 am (UTC)Also, congrats on how well the bidding is going- I'd also feel intimidated, but I'm rooting for you~
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Date: 2025-03-08 06:31 am (UTC)(I still have and treasure the books you bound for me! A friend asked about Restoration the other day because the cover was so beautiful <3)
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Date: 2025-03-08 07:43 am (UTC)And the one with rearrangeable sections... Of Akatsuki no Yona??? The individual pamphlets are so pretty!
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Date: 2025-03-09 03:50 am (UTC)(it was written when Soowon's mother's backstory hadn't yet been fleshed out in canon, so a fandom friend and I were basically: absent mother? It's Free Real Estate! so while the main character of this fic shares a name with a canon character, she's essentially an OC. And then it's a crack-taken-seriously au on top of that)
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Date: 2025-03-08 08:45 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2025-03-09 12:23 pm (UTC)these are extremely neat and make me wish I actually read things on paper these days!
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Date: 2025-03-10 08:51 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2025-03-27 01:46 pm (UTC)I especially want to play with the idea of fake bamboo scroll and the timetravel with no set order ones.