Making of the "The Seventeeth Step" twin binding
Because you know you want to know how books are made! ;)
So, this is still The Seventeenth Step by the amazingly talented katieforsythe.
After I copied the whole body of text into Word and printed it on nice paper,
I stitched the book with flax thread. When I thought about if I should wax the thread or not, then I remembered Sussex and the bees, so beeswax it was =)
After stitching it, I glued the spine and... wah, I really don't know what it's called in English, but well, I shape the spine.
Then French headbands. I used silk thread, grey and blue for Holmes and Watson. There is a third thread that is just for tying the knots around, that you never see, and i made that red for hidden love, because I'm silly like that.
After gluing on the cover boards I measured the leather for spine and corners.
This lovely machine is a Shärf-fix, you use it to thin out the edges of the leather.
Putting on the false raised binds (direct translation from swedish, haha), and then pasting on the leather.
Then time for the paper. This, too, is silver and blue for Holmes and Watson, I made it especially for this book. (The paper on the box, which I forgot to take a good picture of befor cutting it up, is made especially for this book to, with the London fog of the 1880's as inspiration)
Making the box =)
And then, at last, this is the title printing machine <3
So, this is still The Seventeenth Step by the amazingly talented katieforsythe.
After I copied the whole body of text into Word and printed it on nice paper,
I stitched the book with flax thread. When I thought about if I should wax the thread or not, then I remembered Sussex and the bees, so beeswax it was =)
After stitching it, I glued the spine and... wah, I really don't know what it's called in English, but well, I shape the spine.
Then French headbands. I used silk thread, grey and blue for Holmes and Watson. There is a third thread that is just for tying the knots around, that you never see, and i made that red for hidden love, because I'm silly like that.
After gluing on the cover boards I measured the leather for spine and corners.
This lovely machine is a Shärf-fix, you use it to thin out the edges of the leather.
Putting on the false raised binds (direct translation from swedish, haha), and then pasting on the leather.
Then time for the paper. This, too, is silver and blue for Holmes and Watson, I made it especially for this book. (The paper on the box, which I forgot to take a good picture of befor cutting it up, is made especially for this book to, with the London fog of the 1880's as inspiration)
Making the box =)
And then, at last, this is the title printing machine <3