For my coptic bindings I wanted to get a little experimental. Since the binding is exposed I wanted to try and decorate the edges with decorative washi tape. I picked a tape that matched the paper I was using for the cover boards.
You can see the tape on the inside of the book, since it was layered on the outside of each signature, between the holes I punched for the binding stitches. I didn't design the inside of these books, so the pages are all blank!
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| Pink end papers |
For this next book I was even more experimental. I played with different page sizes and shapes. The goal was to create a book that had smaller independent 'books' inside of it. I wasn't as precise as I could have been in cutting out the pages, so while everything sewed together fine and functions as one whole piece, the pages don't turn as easily as I had imagined.
I also played with 'windows' cut into the cover boards for the book, as well as different colored end papers, and a variegated rainbow cording for the binding.
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