Bookbinding: Gawayne and the Green Knight
I found Gawayne and the Green Knight on Librivox and listened to it while working. It's an updated version of one of the arthurian legends (well, I say updated... it was published about 1903, so it's fairly old by now, and that's why it's on librivox of course), in verse, both funny and unexpectedly touching in places. Gawayne has been one of my favourite knights since eleventh grade, when my Swedish teacher told us the tale of Parzival. She was an amazing teacher, and I have always wanted to give her someting. Now, four years since I finished school, I've found the perfect gift.
I downloaded the text from Gutenberg Project. I figured it would be okay since this was meant to be a gift - I would never sell a book I made with text from there without checking for how to pay them and stuff.
Anyways. The book is rather short, so to fill it out and get it a bit thicker, I drew a border that I put around every page.
SPOILER WARNING: the pictures tells the entire tale, from the upper left corner and clockwise.
Since the tale is about a knight, I printed the title on a shield.
Leather headbands is good for thin books like this. You can also see a bit of the border =)
I miscalculated when I cut the paper for the cover, so there was a few millimeters missing on each side when I pasted them on. I hid that with thin leather bands, and the book looked much better for it. My teacher always says "Bookbinding is the art of hiding your mistakes".
This is how the page looks with the border and all.
I hope she will be happy with it =)
I downloaded the text from Gutenberg Project. I figured it would be okay since this was meant to be a gift - I would never sell a book I made with text from there without checking for how to pay them and stuff.
Anyways. The book is rather short, so to fill it out and get it a bit thicker, I drew a border that I put around every page.
SPOILER WARNING: the pictures tells the entire tale, from the upper left corner and clockwise.
Since the tale is about a knight, I printed the title on a shield.
Leather headbands is good for thin books like this. You can also see a bit of the border =)
I miscalculated when I cut the paper for the cover, so there was a few millimeters missing on each side when I pasted them on. I hid that with thin leather bands, and the book looked much better for it. My teacher always says "Bookbinding is the art of hiding your mistakes".
This is how the page looks with the border and all.
I hope she will be happy with it =)