Comment on Hardcover Bookbinding and Laser Etching the Bookcloth
revelrous@sopuli.xyz 2 months agoAh! I am a beginner, and use a much thinner quilting cotton. To prevent the glue showing I have to fill with mix of acrylic medium and starch paste (haven’t found a ratio I really liked), or to back the cloth with paper to keep the glue from showing. So to me your casing looked like witchcraft! I really like the etching effect. No idea how you’d line it up, but it seems like you could make some gorgeous illustrationy covers by going over the cloth multiple times at different strengths for different values.
JacobCoffinWrites@slrpnk.net 2 months ago
I’m definitely a beginner too, especially with using actual cloth - I think I just got lucky with which fabric I happened to have on hand.
This simple beginning definitely got us thinking about more elaborate stuff to try in the future. Part of why I did a basic cloth hardcover was that the author never made any cover art for it, and partly that I just thought it would be a good fit for the feel of the story. But for some of our own I think we can do some really cool versions of their cover art in this format. Part of that would be inverting the colors and dialing in the contrast for clarity.
I’ve seen some really cool looking illustrations etched on online demonstrating the potential:
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