Medieval Book Completed and Named

In the past few weeks I've been slowly putting together a book. I know, what an odd thing for a bookbinder to be doing. However, this is a new style for me and only the second one at that. A little thought was involved. Yeah, very little - I'll explain that in a moment. First, the book.

Jumps with Snow is its name because it was completed during a heavy snow storm. It is 140 pages, B6, blank journal. "Blank journal" means the bookmaker was too lazy to print anything, even lines, on the paper. OR, in my case, eager to try out a new binding. In this case the binding is a rounded back with raised cords.

Overall, an enjoyable experience wherein I learned a lot. First mistake, put one endpapers in upside down. Second mistake, put the endpapers on the mull instead of Under the mull, thus hiding it from the book's user. A habit of mine I should break. Or use some thought? Yes, thinking would be good. Major mistake, kind of, was making too few signatures. It only has seven whereas if it were 15 or so, it would look better. Allis Experience and Training.

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Cooking Up a Medieval Book? Maybe

I'm starting, slowly, to make a book like I've never made before. The signatures are sewn on raised cords, then the spine is rounded for a 1 cm book board. After I'm finished the spine should have bumps on it.

Here are three pictures of this glorious work in progress. The first problem I've encountered is I have made too few signatures. Seven is too few. It would be better to have maybe 15 at least. Maybe even twenty.

Moon Eclipse blank book

200 pages, rounded back, my first, Gorgeous endpapers. B6 in size. Excellent experience and topped it off with fine, cold 酒. Wonderful day.

Tedorigawa Daily (A Paperli Paper)

A Paperli paper; meaning, I suspect, a digest of troglodytes picked up somewhere amongst the tubes of the inner net. i.e. you don't have to read all the blogs to get the info I've picked up somewhere, myself. About bookbinding, papermaking, book arts, and printing. Mostly. With the odd assorted flavors thrown in for good measure.

And now, the headlines behind the stories (click anywhere - except the bottom of your foot - to be whisked away to, yes, drum roll: Tedorigawa Daily):

Recent Completions

I case bound two books today.

One is A5 in size with about 285 pages. It's one of my novels: Tristram's Printer backed with the first book of Laurence Sterne's Tristram Shandy. The endpapers are of two different colors because I was away from my studio space and only had the papers I had. Still, not bad since there are two novels, it stands to reason it should have two colored endpapers.

The second one is another of my novels: The Priests of Hiroshima: An Historical Love Story. It is B4 in size with 172 pages and green endpapers.

Venetian Slime Woman

I wrote a sci-fi novel about a strange group of people who grow from mold and can't die except after the birth of their grandchild. And the unnamed government agency that ones to dissect one - "for research purposes" - of course, and how a daring EPA water specialist saves, protects, and falls in love with one.

Then I printed it out and bound it up to create three copies (one has been given away already) of a unique book that is also fun to read.

"The Venetian Slime Woman: A Biological Love Story" is available at Smashwords.com and, handbound, from me.

Email me at Tedorigawabookmakers.bookmakers@gmail.com if you would like to purchase one of the two remaining copies. The one copy I gave away was given to the inspiration for the EPA water quality specialist - a friend who is an EPA water quality specialist; or was before retiring into private consulting work. In Venice? No, alas.

Junque Journals and Fun

Life is definitely for the fun-loving person. If you want to record your life as you live it, perhaps you'd like to make a Junque Journal (sometimes called an artist book or an altered book. Maybe even called a journal.) Here is a video I found for you all from TangieBaxter's YouTube channel.

She also has the three-part video on how to make this unique Junque Journal. It can be found at this link here: Link Here. Enjoy making a journal or just watching the video.

Calvado Cover

Here is a photo I'm thinking of using for the cover of my novel

CALVADO: A Deadly Love Story

Calvado is a fashion model/medical school student who gets caught up with a gang-related singer with a deadly disease. Soon to be released on Smashwords.com If I finish editing it soon; after all, NaNoWriMo is just around the proverbial corner and my new novel

THE BLIND OPTHAMOLOGIST

is itching to be written.

White Dragonfly Coptic

I made a small blank notebook with hand-backed cloth, Coptic binding, colored thread. Maybe 160 pages (10 signatures of four sheets each). I think it came out quite well and was a welcome respite from books that require glue (casebound, for example).

Renewed Notebook

I made a blank notebook about three years ago and, being poorly constructed, it gradually fell apart with use. So I remade it, this time under expert supervision. Handbacked cloth, link-stitched, white endpapers, and a new and thicker book board. I also added three signatures of brown paper because the notebook was 75% full of doodles and doodads.

Below you can see the back and front plus some of the brown paper signatures that were added. And some of the doodling done for imposing content. Not that the content is imposing but I'm planning on printing out a novel and the content (a novel) needs to be imposed before I bind it. See? Good.

Book Girl from 円プレス - Yen Press

I found this an interesting premise: a demoness who must eat books in order to stay alive. Naturally, she's got a gourmet taste for books and stories. Handwritten are the best. I don't know anything else about it but may check it out to read more. From Yen Press. Book Girl

BOOK GIRL AND THE SUICIDAL MIME by Mizuki Nomura  July 2010 | ISBN: 978-0-316-07690-6 | $8.99 ($10.99) | 192 pages | 5.5”x 8.25″ For Tohko Amano, a third-year high school student and self-styled “book girl,” being the head of the literary club is more than just an extracurricular activity. It’s her bread and butter…literally! Tohko is actually a literature-gobbling demon, who can be found at all hours of the day munching on torn out pages from all kinds of books. But for Tohko, the real delicacies are hand-written stories. To satisfy her gourmet tastes, she’s employed (rather, browbeaten) one Konoha Inoue, who scribbles away each day after school to satisfy Tohko’s appetite. But when another student comes knocking on the literary club door for advice on writing love letters, will Tohko discover a new kind of delicacy?

Muna Luz Sings

Some strange animal songs from Muna Zul, an a capella trio from Mexico. This one is called Baking Hollow. Listen and enjoy.



And this one is called Voto de Silencio. Listen and enjoy this one, too.

Music, Dance, Video

Music, Video, and Dance. From World's End Girlfriend

World's End Girlfriend – Les Enfants du Paradis (Official Music Video) from Erased Tapes on Vimeo.

The Raamen Shop

Another 20-second clip of a joint that serves food. Obsessed are we? Another JayCut creation.




Thanks for watching.

Conveyor Belt Food

No, not food made from a conveyor belt. Enjoy your sushi.

Made entirely from range-free fish. And cloud computing.