In my bookbinding quest, I decided to use all of the printing funds in my college account to print like 600 - 800 pages of The Works of Rabelais and bind what came out, with the intention of reading it. I'm relatively happy with the resulting book. The cloth is denim from old jeans and the brown cover material is cheap packing paper with some of my best suminagashi. The label/title/logo was made by layering images of text in photoshop. Structurally, it stays together nicely. I wish I had folded over the denim on top of the suminagashi and installed brads to make it look more professinal. I also wish that I had used double cardboard glued together for the covers and marbled the edges of the text block. Regrets aside, this thing is a BEAST to hold while laying in bed.
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