Edge decoration for Red Rising! Blood splatters for the violence and rage of the story and a line for Darrow cutting his path through it all. 🧶 📚🪐💙 #redrising #scifibooks #piercebrown #sprayededges

Continuing on with the mockups for the binding of the Red Rising trilogy, here's the design for Golden Son. Loyalty and betrayal is the main theme I'm working with, shown by the black lines running down the covers. 🪐📚💙 #bookbinding

Working on some titling today! 1. Almost final - there's a bit of clean up to do 2. Final pass of blind tooling 3. First pass of tooling 4. The setup of how I transfer the title #bookbinder #handcraft #books #selfpublishedauthor #finebinding #foilquill #goldfoil

Work has begun on the Red Rising rebinds! I'll be creating 10 copies of these bindings. If you're interested in getting one when they're available, fill out the form in my bio so you can be notified. #redrising #piercebrown #scifiandfantasy #rebinding #bookbinder

I'm working with different textures in the designs for the Red Rising bindings so I decided to make physical mockups to see how everything works together. The title was added digitally. #booksky #bookbinding #scifi

It's been a minute since I've posted a tarot deck box. I love making these and can do custom colors to match your tarot or oracle deck! ✨ #tarotdecks #witchy #dailytarot #oraclecards #witchsky

I made a video showing most of my rebinding process: youtu.be/jy2c2_vpNs0?... #booksky #bookbinding #handmade #booktok

Leather endbands are the best ✨ #bookbinding #handmade #booksky

Doing some inlay work for Left Hand of Darkness today. Mica is cool but I can't say I'd voluntarily work with it again. 🫠 💙📚🪐 🧶

Ok, WorldCon, I'm here with some books! This is my most recent binding: Alien Clay by Adrian Tchaikovsky @aptshadow.bsky.social The leather was hand dyed and painted to give the impression of strange growth. The endpages are a stenciled design meant to represent a net (IYKYK). 🪐📚💙 #booksky #scifi

Making some craquelle leather for the binding of Alien Clay that I'm working on. This method is fun because you can layer it with other effects and you don't always know how it's going to look. #leatherwork #leatherdye #Handmade #bookbinding

I need to revisit embroidery on leather. This one was so fun because of all the different textures of thread, leather, and tooling. The book is Wizard &Glass, The Dark Tower IV by @stephenking.bsky.social 🪐📚💙 #thedarktower #stephenking #finebinding #bookbinding

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Foundation - the first book in the trilogy by Isaac Asimov. This is the first of three bindings I'm creating to have on display at WorldCon (@seattlein2025.org) this year! More pictures & the full design statement on my site: www.blackoakbindery.com/foundation 🪐📚💙 🧶 #Bookbinding #scifi #booktok

Hey #portfolioday I'm creeping on your tag with some handmade books! I create custom bindings of books with a focus on SFF work. I'd love to do more work for private commissions, small presses, or kickstarters. www.blackoakbindery.com #FantasyBooks #Scifi #BookTok #Reading #Art 🪐📚💙 🧶

This book was a bit of a bear to break down. It was sewn but had a very thick layer of glue that was only moveable with heat. The signatures will be pressed tonight and I'll move on to sewing tomorrow! Really hoping to have this one done for WorldCon. 💙📚 #scifinovel #hugoawards #booktok

Very excited to be a vendor at WorldCon this year! I'll have several fine bindings with me as well as lots of journals for sale.

I'm making another iteration of Spinning Silver for a client, so I figured I'd share some of the finished pictures from the first copy. I think this book is where I really started to prefer leather endbands. #bookbinding #naominovik #rebinding #fantasybook

Dot..Dot...dot.dot..dotdotdotdotdotdotdot Once you get into a rhythm with it, it can be calming work. 📚💙 🧶 #finebinding #bookbinding #isaacasimov #foundation

Finally finished up this commission of a box to house 2 ARCs of a Tim Powers book. It was fun to build a box with a drawer and I'm quite pleased with the result! #boxmaking #handmade #bookcollector #clamshellbox #bookbinding

Aaaand we're titled! There will be more tooling around the title but I always do the title first because it's the most nerve-wracking part for me. Tooled lines can be easy to fix, but words that everyone's eyes go to first? Not as much. 📚💙 #Asimov #scifiandfantasy #foundation

Did you know that sometimes binders sew in a signature only to rip it out later in the process? This creates space for the leather that goes on the hinge. It's bookbinding magic ✨ #bookbinding #handmade #Craft

Two preciouses now complete! #hobbit #bookbinding #journal #lordoftherings #handmade

Working on a commission this week for a clamshell that will hold two different ARCs of the same book. It's been fun figuring out how to build something with a drawer! 💙📚 🧶 #boxmaking #crafting #bookbinder #studio #bookcollector

Between design bindings, I've been working up a stock of journals for convention season. Right now I'm focusing on finishing up a few of the Hobbit designs. Next to be done is adding a working door that hides the painting. #Handmade #journaling #Bookart #Bookbinding

Slowly getting there with Foundation! This one has been a challenge in terms of design because the color scheme is quite different from what I normally gravitate to. I wanted to match the interior illustrations and have a mid-century modern feel so I'm going with teal & gold. #bookbinding #scifi

The lost art of bookbinding comes to University of Denver #denver Read more: https://www.9news.com/video/news/local/next/next-with-kyle-clark/the-lost-art-of-book-binding-comes-to-university-of-denver/73-299fbecf-c4d1-4e57-9b12-3784ff563d0a

Sorting leather scraps with my supervisor 🐾 #bookbinding #doggie #studiolife

Packing for a work trip. So many sharp, pointy objects to bring with me. 🤗 #Bookbinding #Handmade #Craft #Artist

The Open Set bookbinding exhibition is now open in Denver! There's a reception tomorrow (May 9th) from 6-8 pm. Come check it out to see some gorgeous handmade books! The 2nd and 3rd images are of the book I have in the show. #Bookarts #Colorado #Finebinding #

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

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.

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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:

Ouch...😂 📚💙 #bookbinding

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 🪐📚💙 ⏰📚 🧶

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

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

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

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

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 📚💙 🧶

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.

A few rebinds coming up! In working on my fine binding diploma, I have to send in 10 books to be graded that were created independently. I'll be working on the first Foundation book and The Left Hand of Darkness over the next few months to turn in. #Bookbinding #scifi #finebinding ⏰📚 🪐📚💙