This was done as a birthday present for the wonderfully talented @kacistar of @kacistardesigns! She wanted something deliberately ugly. Something you’d likely find post apocalyptic!
First, Paper! Printed out on the archaic printing machine which uses old world power to operate – or so I’m told. We have regular lined, lined with a blank section and end pages.
Children help the process go much quicker.
If You’re going to do something, you might as well experiment. Do something a little different. Like accidentally stumble upon French linked stitching.
The linked stitch does pull everything more closely together – like we must be if we are to survive in this newly decimated land.
I scavenged up some wire! Who knows what the Old-Worlders used this for, but I shall strip the metal from it’s plastic coating and twist it into a usable product!
More scavenging brought me some bleached denim. This will make an excellent covering.
The amount of paper trimmed off two book guts.
Plorp Plorp Plorp! The glue shall make this book STRONG!
Uhhhh strengthening the hinges because… um… I’m an Adult and I can do what I want?
I found some more blue wire to use for headband cores! It’s tough to chew through with my teeth so I may need to leave it long.
A rare ray of sunshine leaking through the radiation clouds let me take this photo. The pretty wires look good on the headband.
Raiders were coming so I had to abandon my work to hide. I was in the middle of making sure the hollow was secure and I couldn’t stay there rubbing it. I secured it down with masking tape.
I reverse engineered a corner template design from this pretty relic that was found.
This allowed me to make more!
The bleached denim accidentally got more distressed and stained some-how. It is still good to use though.
I riveted some metal strips onto it for where the spine would be. Because, again, I’m an Adult and I can do what I want.
I glued the cover on and then I needed to bend the corners so I could add them. I also needed to punch holes for the long headband cores to go through. Naturally those cores would need to be secured to the cover some how – so I had to make straps for those! It was hard work. I worked long into the night…
The book is done…. It’s ugly but it will serve it’s purpose. Also you could probably kill someone with the sharp corners and protruding metal bits. Fun Times.
