If you’ve been making endbands on your books, you already know how much the right colors and pattern can add to a project. While rarely the focus of a fine binding, a well-done endband is like the matting on a painting. A good one will set it off perfectly and harmoniously. This post is inspired…
This is one of the more ambitious rebinds I’ve done to date. The book I worked from was a Viking first edition of Stephen King’s It. I hadn’t read it yet, and I definitely enjoyed delving into the fandom that surrounds the book and movies. The Specs: The spine was removed from the text block and…
An Ode to Frog and Toad A friend of mine, author Christopher Rowe, wrote a sweet poem a few years back. About the best duo—Frog and Toad. This inspired me to create a lil book version! It was so much fun rereading some of my favorite childhood stories. This is the flower fold structure,…
My most recent project has been a side-by-side binding with my bookbinding mentor. Working on book blocks that were the same size, this allowed Jon to demonstrate the technique while allowing me something to mess up on. My copy is To Say Nothing of the Dog, and Jon’s is Doomsday Book. Both written by Connie Willis….
Here is a commission I took to rebind a first edition of Senlin Ascends. The first two books in the Books of Babel series were originally self-published, and those editions are harder to find. I was asked to rebind 2 copies with matching slipcases. I kept the original cover to use as a frontis. The…
A “Magic Box” of Pockets This project was inspired by the story “Pockets” by Amal El-Mohtar. “Pockets” tells of a woman who keeps pulling random objects out of her pockets, regardless of what clothes she is wearing or what she is doing. Originally published in 2015 inUncanny Magazine, I didn’t read the story myself until…