Adventures in bookbinding

[bunn]

I took this extremely battered and spineless book and tarted it up a bit:




Made new head and tail bands and a new spine, put a new cover on it and copied the logo and title with carbon paper.

This isn't quite the final version, I tweaked the lettering a bit to make it more level but I don't seem to have photographed that.



Looks quite good as far as it goes. The hardest bit is the glue that really wants to be on the outside of the bookcloth and not where it should be. And cutting things straight, of course.

Next time I intend to dissect the book more first, so I can say I properly re-bound it with new stitching. I've got a whole pile of badly knackered AD&D books and a ton of pieces of bookcloth, so I can experiment.

Comments

[ermingarden]

Wow!

[anerea]

Oooh, what fun! Sticky fingers and all!

[independence1776]

Ooh. Bookbinding is mysterious and mystical to me.

[red_lasbelin]

That is so cool! I would also like to learn bookbinding, though I do not have the time right now to do so. A good friend bought me a beginner book binding kit. Also your post hit me viserally - we had the the Chronicles of Narnia series when I was young that I realize now was probably an older edition that was redone like you did with this book - it looked exactly like that, though different colours for each book. I hadn't thought of them in forever.

I admire your different hobbies, Bunn!