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Elarie
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Jun 17 2015, 12:49pm
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This is a really nice 3 1/2 minute video of a beautiful leather-bound hand-made book being made. I thought it was pretty cool.
https://www.facebook.com/...53712577550/?fref=nf
I took a book binding course once and still have some of my experiments. We even learned how to make our own marbled paper, which was cool. Anyone else love the look of special books?
Arabian Nights and Grimm's Fairy Tales
blank journal book with case
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Gold is the strife of kinsmen,
and fire of the flood-tide,
and the path of the serpent.
(Old Icelandic Fe rune poem)
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Annael
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Jun 17 2015, 11:13pm
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if I ever retire and have time on my hands, I'd love to learn how to bind books in the old way, using leather covers & endpapers & all.
I am a dreamer of words, of written words. I think I am reading; a word stops me. I leave the page. The syllables of the words begin to move around … The words take on other meanings as if they had the right to be young.
-- Gaston Bachelard
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NARF and member of Deplorable Cultus since 1967
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Annael
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Jun 17 2015, 11:27pm
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I am a dreamer of words, of written words. I think I am reading; a word stops me. I leave the page. The syllables of the words begin to move around … The words take on other meanings as if they had the right to be young.
-- Gaston Bachelard
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NARF and member of Deplorable Cultus since 1967
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Elarie
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Jun 17 2015, 11:46pm
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Just amazingly intricate and beautiful.
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Gold is the strife of kinsmen,
and fire of the flood-tide,
and the path of the serpent.
(Old Icelandic Fe rune poem)
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dernwyn
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Jun 18 2015, 1:14am
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Such a precision art, yet so satisfying! I love watching this kind of artistry. Thank you!
(I wonder what they're using for thread - when I repair signatures (my office has "Book Hospital" above the door), I use unwaxed dental floss!  )
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Aunt Dora Baggins
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Jun 20 2015, 3:25pm
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Ooh, very nice! I do some bookbinding too.
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My favorite one was a leather cover I put onto a battered paperback book called "The Book of Weird" (well worth buying for a fantasy fan, by the way.). Here are a couple of photos: photo 1, photo 2
I also make journals with sewn signatures, but I use plain cardboard covers so I can insert them into reusable covers.
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"For DORA BAGGINS in memory of a LONG correspondence, with love from Bilbo; on a large wastebasket. Dora was Drogo's sister, and the eldest surviving female relative of Bilbo and Frodo; she was ninety-nine, and had written reams of good advice for more than half a century."
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"A Chance Meeting at Rivendell" and other stories
leleni at hotmail dot com
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Elarie
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Jun 21 2015, 12:31am
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It's gorgeous - I am just super impressed. What a treasure.
I don't mind reading e-books, but I can't imagine ever giving up beautiful, tangible REAL books! In fact, I saw a really funny post on Facebook yesterday of a photo someone took of her mother using her Kindle as a bookmark in a book. LOL - I think there's some sort of unintentional ironic social commentary happening there! 
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Gold is the strife of kinsmen,
and fire of the flood-tide,
and the path of the serpent.
(Old Icelandic Fe rune poem)
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