notwhelmedyet:It took about three months, from typesetting to the final pressing, but I’ve fin

notwhelmedyet:

It took about three months, from typesetting to the final pressing, but I’ve finished binding my trilogy Drifting Together! I was a bit ambitious with this project and paid for it in lots of small alignment mistakes . These books were my first attempts at:

• Printing on fabric
• Sewing together multiple pieces of fabric into a cover (tricky, lots of math, but necessary because my printer wouldn’t take anything larger than letter sized)
• Embroidered covers
• Making bookcloth
  
• Translucent vellum title pages
• Embroidered faux headbands
• Chisel trimming books
  

The beautiful illustrations are pieces I commissioned from @kurxo way back in 2020. I was, perhaps, a little optimistic about how soon I’d be starting this project.