A spooky journal for the season. Endpapers are handmade paper by @society_of_hermits, which I purchased from the Printers Fair at @printmuseum . The cover is a wood veneer card with original art made by @little_gold_fox #bookbinding #halloween #darkacademia #artsandcrafts #spooky #bookart #paperart

Rebinds for auction: ° The Odyssey by Homer ° Babel by R.F. Kuang Ships internationally Bidding runs Sept 26-28 Proceeds go to Gaza Soup Kitchen, Palestine Red Crescent Society, & World Central Kitchen. #UnboundForGaza #WritersForPalestine #ArtistsForPalestine #BookishAuction #BooksForGaza

These unique handmade books could be yours! Bidding runs from Sept 26-28. All proceeds go to urgent humanitarian relief for Gaza. beacons.ai/unboundforgaza

SNAFU: An Anthology of Military Horror Stories written by Jeff Hewitt, Brian W. Taylor, Tyson Mauermann, and more. Part of the Joe Ledger Series, Arcadian Series, and SNAFU series. #bookbinding #handboundbook #snafu #horror #military

Homer’s The Odyssey 🏛️ My first time attempting to deboss by hand without foiling. The gold and silver on the cover is calligraphy ink I tried to paint into the pattern. #bookbinding #handboundbook #fanbinding #odysseus #theodyssey #greekmythology #renegadebookbinding #handmade #circe

Howl’s Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones 
This handbound book will be available for auction. Stay tuned for more details in September 2025. 
Can you spot the castle on the back of the book?
#bookbinding #handboundbook #dianawynnejones #artsandcrafts #howlsmovingcastlebook #howlsmovingcastle

Howl’s Moving Castle 🏰🔥🏡 This book will be available in a fundraising auction hosted by @bookbindsforacause on IG #bookbinding #handboundbook #howlsmovingcastle #handmade #artsandcrafts #ghibli #renegadebookbinding #renegadeguild

Here is my binding of the Metamophoses of Ovid. The cover (front and back) is a steel plate engraving called The Fall of Phaeton, anonymously created in the 17th century, Netherlands. #bookbinding #greekmythology #greekmyth #roman #classicliterature #classicalliterature #handmade #handboundbooks

The Right really is in disarray because they cannot seem to figure out if they should push “Zohran Mamdani is going to bring Sharia Law” or “Zohran Mamdani treats his wife with too much equality” as a smear campaign, so they are doing both.

Babel by R.F. Kuang
Front cover is the English title of the book in gold. Around it are Bible verses in Cantonese (Genesis 11:8-9) in silver. The back has the Cantonese title in gold with the English translation of the verses around it. 
#babel #rfkuang #bookbinding #rebind #bibleverses #cantonese

#babel #rfkuang #bookbinding #handmadebooks #thepoppywar #rebinding #rebind #artsandcrafts #renegadebookbinding #renegadebindery #bibleverses #canto #cantonese #cantoneselanguage

I’ve read too much science fiction too many dystopian novels and too many poems on civil rights to be quiet…

Between Greta Thunberg and her fellow activists being kidnapped by Israel and Trump turning LA into his personal war zone, I hope people realise that protest, no matter how peaceful, will always be met with violence by dying empires.

Summer 2025 edition

...creativity is inherently unsafe...

Greta Thunberg has been kidnapped by the state of Israel. "Please make sure to be loud." - One of the last messages from the crew before being taken hostage after the attack from Israel RESHARE! REPOST! SPEAK OUT! RELEASE. THE. CREW. END. THE. BLOCKADE. FREE. PALESTINE.

Everyone on the Freedom Flotilla knew *exactly* who they were dealing with and the most likely outcome of their actions. They knew there was a greater than 50% chance they would not survive, and they did it anyway. It was a sacrifice of perhaps their lives to force international action. Damn.

Know your rights.

Epic: The Muscial Lyric Book I hope this video explains how the foiling happens. I created a design and printed it on thin paper. After securing the foil to the cover, I lay the design over the foil and trace it with the quill. #bookbinding #epicthemusical #odysseus #handboundbook #artsandcrafts

Hand bound Lyric book of EPIC: The Musical by @jayherrans 🌊🔱⚡️ The cover is black allure bookcloth from Hollanders, foiled in blue and gold using a foil quill. End bands were sewn with cotton embroidery floss. #epicthemusical #bookbinding #handboundbook #fanbinding #odysseus

EPIC: The Musical, by Jorge Rivera-Herrans. Handmade Lyric book WIP #jorgeriveraherrans #epicthemusical #bookbinding #processvideo #handmadebook #odysseus #handmade #artsandcraft #theodyssey #jayherrans

Without collective liberation, there is no justice

🌹🌹🌹 Kushiel’s Legacy The book edges were marbled during the last SoCal Renegade Bookbinding Guild meet up earlier this year. #bookbinding #handboundbook #handmade #kushielsdart #kushielslegacy #jacquelinecarey #rebind #renegadebookbinding #renegadeguild

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📣 BOOK AUCTION 📣 I’m contributing these three books 📚 to the Press The Patriarchy auction taking place April 25-27. The auction will support The Trevor Project, ACLU, & Planned Parenthood. Visit www.32auctions.com/pressthepatr... for more info. #bookbinding #bookauction #pressthepatriarchy

Another great animation of my comic by @robin.animates (on ig) - I love thinking that this little fish is out there somewhere #kneesinmotion

Confident Anticipation of Joy by Alice Walker

Rest here my weary doom scroller. There will be plenty of shit posts to read in your future.

Insurers’ denial rates are a critical measure of how reliably they pay for customers’ care. But they remain mostly secret to the public. Federal and state regulators have done little to change that. (Published 2023 w/ @capitolforum.bsky.social)

A Classical Chinese poetry book I made for my grandmother. #chinesepoetry #bookbinding #handmadebook

📣 BOOK AUCTION 📣 I’m contributing these three books 📚 to the Press The Patriarchy auction taking place April 25-27. The auction will support The Trevor Project, ACLU, & Planned Parenthood. Visit www.32auctions.com/pressthepatr... for more info. #bookbinding #bookauction #pressthepatriarchy

Want to reduce spending? The U.S. could stop funding genocides and wars, which drive the cycle of militarization. Empire exists to end us. We will end Empire.

Do you know what would be “efficient”? The U.S. cutting its $850 billion defense budget. It is larger than the next 9 countries combined. Want to cut costs? The U.S. could withdraw its 800 international military bases and 170,000 troops around the world.

Made my first post on Prose! 
Apart from introducing myself, I also discuss my contemplations on taking in the role of a guerrilla archivist through my bookbinding craft. 

prose.astral.camp/de3pwater/