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A Whole Bouquet Of Whoopsie-Daisies

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"There are no stars above us but there are books all around, and somehow I feel like that's almost the same thing." --Algernon Moncrieff, In Earnest
Monica. Ace, cis, she/her. AO3.
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appropriate-as-always
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agnesmontague
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eyepool

LET us go then, you and I,

When the sunrise is spread out against the sky

Like a boiled egg Easterized upon a table;

Let us hunt through certain half-deserted lawns,

With stifled yawns

That follow like a tedious argument…

‘Where is it?’ you say; oh do not ask it!

I snuck your chocolates into my basket.

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teleportbooks

Experimental bookbinding!

A couple of years ago there was a conversation in the Renegade discord about books styled after corsetry, and I thought it would be cool to model the actual construction after corsetry, not just the aesthetics. So,

  • Book pages are often held together by being sewn onto cords or tapes, which are then glued or tied to the cover boards
  • What if they were laced to the cover boards instead?

In this notebook, each section of folded pages is sewn individually. The sewing creates channels to thread the lacing through.

It took a couple of lacing attempts to get it to work. On an actual corset, the lacing would alternate being threaded out to in vs in to out, so that the corset would be able to lace completely closed. When I laced the book like this, the pages didn't stay in place--I needed the lacing to pull the pages towards the outside edge of the board at every pass through.

The pages are made of onesided graph paper, so they're blank on one side and gridded on the other. I plan to use this as a bookbinding planning journal. Technically, one could unlace the pages and replace them with a blank set when it's full.

The flat-felled seams and boning channels on the cover are purely decorative.

#bookbinding#pretty#art
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tinytauris

Adam having the best skate of his life and immediately taking a -2 illegal backflip deduction for the narrative, he truly is what figure skating needs

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