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soph ([personal profile] sophia_sol) wrote2024-01-20 09:13 am

Bookbinding: Suradanna and the Sea

I finished my first book-binding project! I'm so excited and proud!!! I know several things I'll do differently next time, but despite some wonkiness I think these books are beautiful.

The story bound within them is Suradanna and the Sea by the wonderful Rebecca Fraimow which you can read at https://rebeccafraimow.com/2023/08/20/suradanna-and-the-sea/

It's a wonderful novella and I knew it had to be the first thing I bind. I made one folio edition and one quarto edition, because I wanted to try both sizes to see how they worked. I'm going to be sending one copy to the author and I will be keeping the other copy for myself. (I'm sending Becca the one that turned out better)

photo of two hand-bound books with blue and black swirled covers entitled SURADANNA AND THE SEA

photo of two hand-bound books with blue and black swirled covers entitled SURADANNA AND THE SEA

photo of the interior of the folio edition of a hand-bound book

photo of the interior of the quarto edition of a hand-bound book

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