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blackoakbindery.bsky.social
Bookbinder creating custom rebinds of sci-fi & fantasy books and magical journals inspired by D&D. She/her. https://blackoakbindery.com
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I love letting gradient thread do all the work for me 😁. I've started stocking up for Denver Fan Expo so expect a lot of journal posts! I picked up a 2nd convention this year which makes the time crunch all that much more pressing. #crafts #traditionalcraft #bookbinding #handmade

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Happy Earth day! I participated in a weathergram exchange with the Northwest Chapter of the Guild of Bookworkers. These are slips of paper that hold quotes chosen by the participants. The quote I wrote on mine was: "It's never too late to be what you might have been" - George Eliot.

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Throwback to a binding I did of The Hobbit early last year. This is a beautiful edition that contains illustrations by Tolkien. #booksky #Bookbinding #Fantasybooks #Handmade

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Grimm's Fairy Tales. Grimm's stories are not always comforting tales with happy endings. For this book, I took a traditional design in bookbinding, the Cambridge Panel, and put a dark spin on it to create a sense of unease.  📚💙 #booktok 🧶 #art #rarebooks

submitted 35 days ago • 2 comments

If tsundoku means buying more books than you're going to read, what's the word for buying more books than you're going to rebind? Having a bookbinding shower thought over here...

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Happy equinox! Yaaaaaay spring! Today is 4 years since I started Black Oak Bindery. This reel covers all the new books I made this past year. Not shown are all the journal restocks I did for conventions, or all the boxes I made. Book titles in the comments! 🧶 🪐📚💙 #booktok #bookbinding

submitted 41 days ago • 1 comment

I thought I wouldn't do something glittery this time around but the lie detector determined that was a lie. #paper #darkart #handmade #bookbinding

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Let me just foil a drawing all over the tooling I've been working on for the past week. It'll be fine right? *Shrug* #darkart #booksky #fairytaleart #bookbinding #handmade

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This is an in-progress binding of Grimm's Fairy Tales. I'm taking a traditional design like the Cambridge panel and putting a dark spin on it. I still have some tooling to do as well as a drawn outline of a tree that will start on the back and wrap around to the front. 💙📚 🧶 #bookbinding #darkart

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The Seattle Worldcon 2025 Community Fund is still accepting applications. Our next application deadline is this Friday, March 14th! Grant recipients will need to have paid the WSFS portion of the membership ($50) prior to receiving funds. Details here:

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Ouch...😂 📚💙 #bookbinding

submitted 60 days ago • 0 comments

Wizard & Glass. Book 4 of the Dark Tower series by @stephenking.bsky.social My design statement for this one is a little long, so I'm going to break it up into several comments. If you'd like to see the more pictures: www.blackoakbindery.com/wizardandglass 🪐📚💙 ⏰📚 🧶

submitted 72 days ago • 1 comment

The endband on a binding I recently finished up. I wanted to match the edge decoration so I applied some iridescent foil to leather and wrapped that around a paper core. ⏰📚💙 🧶 #Bookbinding #Handmade #Art #Artisan

submitted 76 days ago • 0 comments

Time lapse of covering a book in leather. The whole process takes about 45 minutes if things go well. This was my first time covering with leather that has embroidery so I didn't really know what to expect but it turned out ok! 🧶 #bookbinding #Art #Artisan #Craft #ArtProcess

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Leather WIP for my next binding. I'm trying embroidery out for the first time and I already adore it 😍 #Handmade #Bookbinding #Leatherart #darktower #moon #workinprogress #Leatherwork

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M-O-O-N that spells the next binding I'm working on. Just kidding, it's not The Stand but it's a Stephen King book. This is a test for onlays that are part of the design. Onlays are thin bits of leather that are pasted on the leather that will cover the book. #bookbinding #Craft #Leatherwork #Art

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This is my binding of the Helen Fragments that was accepted into the Open Set competition. If you're not familiar with it, The Helen Fragments is a collection of the lines when Helen appears in the Iliad. Design statement follows in the comments! #Bookbinding #TheIliad #Art #Handmade #BookTok 📚💙 🧶

submitted 91 days ago • 2 comments

DID YOU KNOW for 25 years Matthew Shepard had no permanent resting place due to concerns his grave would be vandalized Reverend Budde learned of this, she invited the Shepards to inter him inside the Washington National Cathedral. www.matthewshepard.org/matthew-shep... She was and is a real hero.

submitted 97 days ago • 58 comments