Binding a MYSTICAL Handmade GRIMOIRE / Book of Shadows!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 19 ต.ค. 2018
- Today we're bookbinding a mystical leatherbound grimoire!
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PARTS USED:
- Real leather, black sheepskin leather 0.4mm thick
- 96 sheets A3 sized sketchbook paper (110 gsm)
- 2 sheets A3 black paper as end sheets (140 gsm)
- Waxed thread: bit.ly/2O9ZFJb
- Hemp / jute cord for stitching: bit.ly/2x4iYw2
- Brass corner decorations: bit.ly/2O6itsD
- Corner protectors: bit.ly/2J7xrgm
- Leather cord for headbands: bit.ly/2QljtdY
- Embroidery thread for headbands: bit.ly/2MmksXY
- Brass buckles: bit.ly/2E90hc8
- Large amethyst stone: bit.ly/2J6hE1b
- Oval filigree: bit.ly/2J8twzD
- Satin ribbon markers: bit.ly/2J96HMs
- Linen cloth for burnishing and covering the spine
- Leather dye
- Greaseproof parchment paper
- 3 mm wood fiberboard covers
TOOLS:
- Basic leather crafting kit:bit.ly/2x2SpXY
- Leather stitching kit: bit.ly/2N7T1Xq
- Awl: bit.ly/2O7o2qH
- Swivel knife: bit.ly/2oWPBIg
- Leather hole punch: bit.ly/2N46uPN
- Leather cap rivet set: bit.ly/2x2faMt
- Mallet: bit.ly/2O7vBhh
- Bone folder:bit.ly/2N49yLW
- Small spray bottle for coffee staining: bit.ly/2oYHTgS
- Coping saw
- Book press
- Stitching jig (or a suitable chair)
- White PVA glue (wood glue)
- Contact glue
- Thick needle
- Scissors & x-acto knife
- Stapler & hammer
- Wax for leather
Restoring a book press: • Restoring a RUSTY Book...
How to sew the signatures together: • Making an Epic Medieva...
MUSIC:
EpidemicSound
Today we're making a DIY huge, heavy, leatherbound grimoire - using real leather and traditional bookbinding techniques. By adding a large amethyst stone to the cover, sewing headbands and carving patterns with gold leaf, it really ends up looking like an "ancient", mystical fantasy book!
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Imagine finding a book like that in someone's house, opening it, and finding that it's a cookbook.
Well, it would be the coolest cookbooK I'll see XD
Or it just a teen's diary and with first page caption : OMG! my first kiss!!...
@@projectcerebus That's even better!
I'M DOING THIS NOW
Oh well , even the imagination is painfull😂😶
At the beginning of this tutorial: "maybe I should try this"
At the end: "maybe I shouldn't "
This is absolutely amazing!!!
SAME!
Same ahahahah!
Lmao I was like....yeah that looks like a lot of work and you have to be very precise and patient.
What's the name of the golden sheet that she put on her book? I don't understand the language very well... I'm a Portuguese speaker.
If anyone knows the name will help me a lot! Thanks ❤️
@@esthermiranda7966 Gold Leaf--you can get it in the craft store
This showed me just HOW MUCH WORK goes into making a book, particularly a book with extensive details. Amazing and beautiful book, astonishing job on it.
Seeing her crafting makes me actually want to make stuff for my craft.
Same here 😍
This video introduced me to a new hobby. Since watching this, I have moved to watching numerous other bookbinding videos and have created about a dozen books of my own. But it all started with this awesome video. Thanks for inspiring me!
Me too i have a new thing to do in quarantine and not just sit around using my phone
same! I keep watching these over and over, i like to set them on in the background as i work on books ^w^
Imagine using that as a witch sketchbook or just a sketchbook in general
Mackynzie Justice That’d be cool.
I was looking up ideas for my new grimoire. My last one was just a sketchbook that I embossed and painted but I kind of want to go more "all in" so to speak. My first one was kind of a trial run when I first got into witchcraft and now I want to do a more finished and personal looking book.
To me, sketchbook and silly doodle would be a waste of expensive blank book, use it for a more useful thing like a secret recipe to natural antidotes and cures and ointments then pass it down to through your following generation. Then it will be a truly magical book, the worthy of Grimoire. Then maybe get more book like this note more knowledge of our time, all of it to pass down generation. When the people of the world has fallen back and lost their technology, knowledge, language, political, arts, creation, and power, these grimoires from us will protect them.
@@333stalker yeah that's the point to be honest. It's for spellwork, studies on deities etc. I like your thinking
Artistic magik
As a solitary practitioner, this is probably one of the most beautiful books I've EVER seen! Well done - it's an heirloom!
Step 1: make book
Step 2: write rituals in book
Step 3 : raise the dead and take over the world
Step 4: a cat defeats you
😂🖤
@@pencil2680 😂
Let me join you
You have 333 likes on this comment so you're halfway there apparently. 😅😅😅
I was like " I wanna make my own fancy book! It can't be that har-" ... nm
It isn't hard
Believe me, you can do it with the simplest tools
Cardboard, Bond paper, a sturdy thread, a needle hard enough, some leather or fabric or fake leather, withe glue (for wood) and a nail or a saw
You can press the book with rope and wood tables! And saw it in a chair
Fr tho
@@Paquillixtli method may be simple but doing that is pretty hard for people with no similiar experience
do it! I've never sawn, never held wood glue in my hand... and now my own black grimoire is drying in the living room
@@sandravovin holy shit nice
i could easily see someone with that book still blank going up to their friends and saying "hey look at this cool book i got, it has some really weird symbols and pictures in it" they look and see nothing "wait, what do you mean its blank?"
I'm gonna try that lol
@@hayrettinyavuz9274 omg i wanna do that too
@@janlol8064 I like your profile picture! :D
@@sixela3645 thanku 😋
@@janlol8064 Np! :>
Your book would look right at home sitting on the shelf in a Harry Potter or Dr. Strange movie.
I don't know if you've already sold your book or not, but as I mentioned in a previous video, you could easily add a miniature Adafruit of Arduino sound board and have it make eerie moaning sounds when someone opens it up, that alternates to someone weeping, evil distant laughter, etc. That would really add to the creepiness factor of the book.
It’s a book of shadows, I don’t think this person intended it to be creepy
@@bbbutter fr
I have this book that I used the tut for next to my 3d printed Stella and Stolas figures (from helluva boss)
Genuinely the best part is when your cat decides to lay in your lap and you are able to just work around them. So cute.
Pretty soon you're gonna have to do a DIY Spooky book shelf to hold all these spooky spell books.
That would be cool.
She sells them - www.ebay.com/itm/Handmade-Leatherbound-Book-Grimoire-Book-of-Shadows/392152287463
and use magnets to make them levitate
I do have my own spooky shelf
@@meghall337 the $25 one underneath looks pretty cool too...
30 years ago I learned the hand-bound process and since then I didn't see anyone do it. Thank you and congratulations, you are very young and you are rescuing this art. Greetings from Mexico. Your cat is truly lovely.
Fitzia M.F. This so wholesome
ayyy hermana mexicana que bello es verte por aqui
hi FM lets connected, I love drawing.
0:55 I love that she commits her left arm to slightly coddle her cat once it sits on her.
Cats are the best.
I LOVE THIS BOOKBINDING!!!!!! Please keep going with the series!! I hope to learn how to do this one day
imagine using this masterpiece as book of shadows
As a Wicca, I'd love that
this is literally what I was thinking about
Planning to make my own for a bos soon 😌✨
My friend tried to use my bos for notes until she saw what it was
I’m going to attempt to make this for my wife for Yule.
Making these kinds of books is a goddamn adventure in itself
Господи, это просто потрясающе. Нашла твой канал случайно, но получила огромную порцию вдохновения.
Огромное спасибо. Прекрасная работа.
While you might not understand this, I agree.
Imagine use this book in your campain in d&d with your mage character, How cool It Will be
Fantasy books I desire to own:
-The Necronomicon
-The NeverEnding story book (the one inside the story)
-The diaries from Gravity falls
-The Enchiridion from Adventure time
Necronomicon:
www.deviantart.com/millecuirs/art/The-stitched-faces-Grimoire-737703221
Neverendeing story:
www.deviantart.com/rfabiano/art/The-Neverending-Story-hideaway-book-box-621713174
I want the hitchhikers guide to the galaxy
Yay a fellow gravity falls fan!
You should also include a version of the necro book from Evil Dead.There are several franchises which use the Necronomicon, by the way.
Maybe Bill Cipher might have a deal?
I'm too broke to buy your book😩! But I understand why the price is that high. You've put a lot of hard work into your books so it's very understanding.
how much is her book?
Sengkeong Lee This Grimoire is $499 on her website 👌
@@therailrangervmtg8658 send me da link plz
potatohead thenerdforge.com
@@therailrangervmtg8658 Wow, what a rip-off. O_O Search for "AlexLibris" on Etsy. He's a professional book binder. His works are not only way better looking but also cheaper.
I don’t know how I got to this video, but WOW!
The attention to detail is incredible.
A true piece of art.
After months and months of just thinking ill finally try to make one myself 😌
🥱
Give us an update now.
This makes me realize why books where for the rich in the old days just making the book takes time and money then writing it took even longer
Medieval books we almost limited to religious texts for this reason alone. A monk would spend several years to decades handwriting the text into a manuscript (they were praised for their regular handwriting) onto usually goatskin vellum. Then it would be bound into a book. Books really became more widely available with the invention of the printing press and then more economically produced paper.
There is a fascinating documentary on the Devil's Bible (its really just a large Bible with odd illustrations and a weird history) and how a monk pretty much spent over a decade teaching himself calligraphy and how to draw and bind the book himself.
@paly jefferson that's exactly how old manuscripts were made (hand written of course). You can actually lay out a book in Adobe InDesign and then have it print out so when you fold the folios /signatures everything lines up perfectly
Books were knowlege. And knowledge was power.
@@iciajay6891 What do you mean "was"?
@@georgemetos Fasinating!
I actually really like the bookbinding, and I'm sure I'm not the only one. The electronics are cool, but I do enjoy the simpler technology DIY things. Just do whatever projects interest you!
OBERON that is so true
Love this book, imagine finding this book full of her paintings and sketches
that would be a dream come true
Your videos are amazing. I have absolutely no intention of mastering medieval binding, I'm fine with much simpler approaches, that don't require a book press. But I watch your videos fascinated, they inspire!
Thank you
Wow, no wonder these books are always so expensive. The amount of hard work that goes into making them is amazing,
*cat crawls into your lap while working*
Me: "Cats really are attracted to magickal workings"
I just got a cat ad after reading this 👁👄👁
Its book making, there's nothing inherently spiritual about it..
@@tigertoxins584 the book is for wicca. which is about magick and spiritual workings so really it is..
@@hiiiitherehaha but not the process of specifically binding the pages of a book together into a book
@@tigertoxins584 Anything can be magickal or spiritual as long as you put intent into it.
I really want to thank you for this. I have made the same Grimore following what you showed thru this video. How I wish I can show you the products. I even salvage some old books with a new leather hard cover books. I thank you. I thank you for the knowledge
WOW! I have a new appreciation for bookbinders. No wonder binds outside the cheap glued in mass produced types that papers separate from can be costly. Thank you for sharing
Oh wow!!! The quality of this! Sadly my budget isn't big enough to be able to buy it, otherwise I would've bought it already.
Seriously getting a sense of the occult in your videos lately, and honestly I do enjoy it. Combined with the tech stuff, it's a nice difference.
You can make one of these for pretty cheap. Sea Lemon has some great videos on how. You can also get fake leather from Joann's for really cheap (since you don't need a lot and they always have coupons). You can reuse the board on the back of the pad of paper for the cover (you can also cut the board into fourths if you what a heavy cover, just tear the pages in half then fold again. A shorter book but you also have more pages!). All in all, you can probably make one for about $20 or less if you are a good couponer.
Absolutely amazing results!
It really makes you appreciate the craft and art of book binding from years ago.
It makes me a little sad to think how people used to take so much pride in the things they produced unlike today where everything is made as fast, efficiently and cheaply as possible making it literally disposable.
Congratulations you have really come a long way In the art of book binding and am now producing real things of beauty.
Innovation is wonderful but it's definitely easy to miss more wholesome times, where everything was made with character; the craft of every item was so intricate
That’s true, but when cheaper books were introduced, more people could own them, and that’s true for most things. There are sure lots of negative sides to faster and cheaper productions, and I too think that we all should be less wasteful, but there are also a good amount of positive aspects to it
I think the possibility of making books faster and cheaper has actually a lot of positive sides, because along with making them more accessible to less wealthy people, the lowered prices of production allowed to make more kinds of books, and also, now when something is handmade it acquires even more value and character.
And everyone also starved or died to disease. Also because books were handcrafted they were uneducated.
Book binding is cool! But don't let that invalidate the work that goes into book creation nowadays. Authors then and now put lots of work and effort into what they make, whether its gimeless stories printed onto a page, or a few hours of work into book binding. At the end of the day, they can each respect the others craft, and people watching from the sidelines should respect that too.
Just because something cam be made quicker doesn't make it any less valuable.
I’ve used embossed designs on my leather sheaths mostly, to great effect. Beautiful job!
imagine finding this book with lots of the world's secret after years where humanity no longer exists and you are the last one remaining. then a new hope came into our minds to restore it
Pensei nisso
the hardest part of book binding, for me, is waiting for all the damn glue to dry
If you want to achieve an easier V shape in the ribbons, try folding them in half (vertically) and then just cut once, that way it will be easier, the use of the candle to seal the threads is a really good idea :)
That was way more clever, hahah. I'll do that next time!
Leonid Lopez I never thought of that!!!!! Aaaah
An stunning job. I have a book that I would love to give this kind of look to. You’re video is amazing in the helpful sense, thanks for showing us how you achieved this look.
It's a wonderful book finish. I understood the bookbinding process well and was able to see it with great interest. As I noticed in the final video cut, I used to use that image as a reference for comic writing. I was happy to be back again.
That's mighty fine workmanship! Thank you for making this video; it clarifies several steps I've never really been able to grasp, like headbanding. Well done!!!
So very inspiring. Attempt in the creation process. Thank you
Not sure how this video came to be part of my recommended today but I am glad that the TH-cam Gods chose it. I have never seen book making or in this case a Grimoire. So satisfying to watch. Looks Gorgeous. Definitely got a like and follow from me.
SAME!
Same
SmoovCheese me too! Same situation and I liked and subscribed! Amazing work and talent!
Your craftsmanship is amazing. The time dedicated to this projects shows the in the book. Thanks!
The patience and attention to detail is unreal! I've watched this video so many times in the last several years, there's something satisfying and motivating about it!
I‘m a silk screen printer in training. In the first year (three in total) of training, we have school with bookbinding trainees. I just showed you video to one of them and she’s amazed - as am I.
This is great!
Explains why they're so damn expensive in the magick shops
I feel a new hyper-fixation coming along… I must learn how to do this.
Dude it is addicting, i’ve made 2 sketchbooks so far and it’s so fun! I’m on the hunt for more sketchbook paper just so i can make another
Its also expensive for good paper. At least where I am.
This is a real work of love. The grimoire is so beautiful. Thanks for sharing this creation!
6:49 "I like my books thicc"
I thought u said "I like my boobs thicc" 😂
t h i c c
I like big books and i cannot lie. All you others brothers cant deny....
@@3riccar10 hahaaha
i think im going to get into a bookbinding phase thanks
Better than getting into drugs
👊😎
For anybody wanting golden decorations (gold tooling) - i would suggest using heat-transfer foils. They are cheap and easy to use, but you will need a stamp/tool for the pattern you want to create and a way to heat it up.
But that is a lot less messy than gold leaf and easier to get crisp lines.
I was just looking for more ways to embellish a cover but that coping saw technique for the holes is Game Changing for making larger books!!!! :O
Thank you all for the incredible feedback on the previous bookbinding video! We'll soon make more of our usual projects too 😄
Thanks for watching, and have a great weekend! 🎃
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- Martina
How long did it take overall for you to complete the grimoir
That's a prize if I ever saw one. I have to make one that would follow your bookbinding technique, which, if you ask me, could be duplicated..even the chair :) Anyone trying it out should do well. Peace :)
About 22 hours of active work, spread out during a week or so :)
I will never ever do anything remotely like this, nevertheless you have got yourself a new subscriber.
Could you post the things for the gold leaf part? I seem to be having trouble finding the primer needed, found lots of gold leaf though :) P.S: I loved this video and am thinking of making one for a friend as a gift, you're an inspiration!!!
Three things:
1) I’ve been loving the book binding videos - fascinating!; 2) You are ridiculously patient - working with gold leaf would drive me insane! 😂; 3) Seeing the word Uberzugslack in print, as someone who only speaks English, was awesome. We just don’t have cool words like that around here!
Thank you - the book is amazing!
Thanks so much!!!! Got referred here to explain the difference between cords and tape in bindings :-). Seeing you do it with cords made it entirely clear how the cords functioned. Nice video production, too, since I'm here.
Wooow what an amazing job done! Never had seen a handmade grimoire being done. The details and all the care to make them are so impressive! This inspired me to do one, who knows one day ^^
I am making a book myself with the guidance of a mixture of your other tutorial and this one! I'm about halfway done I'd say, just sewed the headbands today and applied the wood front and back covers! Thank you so much for these videos, I learned a lot from them!
That's awesome! If you post about it on Insta, feel free to tag us, I'd love to see how it turns out :)
can u make a phonecase that looks like some of your books? that would be amazing!
This would be so cool. I'd buy 20
Beautiful work, congrats! Thanks for share
Amazing video! This was way more in depth than I was expecting and so close to how books like this are actually made. The book is beautiful.
If you want to stop creasing on the spine you can add a cavity out of card or lots of layers of glue and paper to protect the buckram or leather.
hi fluorescent black,,, lets connected, I love drawing
I was curious about this video. But the cat sealed the deal.
You earned a sub
martina: mentions glue
martina: starts watering at the mouth
Making a book like this is not within my capability as my hands don't work so well anymore. As a self-described book whore, I just love books in general. This book which you made took a lot ofskill, patience, and artistry. It's really beautiful!
I'v watched some of your book binding videos, and it's inspiring me to work more on the handmade sketch books I make for myself
What a gorgeous book press. Great project. I don't mind the bookbinding at all. Bind away.
I know this video is 9 months old, but I just recently discovered y’alls channel & I’m obsessed & can’t stop watching 😭 everything is so good, it fuels my creativity!
I love the gilding process.
Wow, I am french and amazed by all the work you've done, I don't know how I get there but your video is really interessting and make me want one of your books haha !
It's a wonderful work !
When you have lot of paintbrush but you prefer to use you finger to spread glue over the book
Make monster book like Harry Potter))
Check out thecraftmaiden :) She has a great one
Beautiful. Your craftsmanship is very good.
Loved the video! Thank you very much for showing us how to do it. I really enjoyed it. I'll start right away with the project! Greetings, Brian.
Just imagine being goth and calling this a diary. I would be scared and surprised
take a shot every time she says "glue"
I should sue you for giving me alcohol poisoning
Im suing
Wow you are "very" smart😒
@@jsplast1 you are very "smart"... If u wanna not call him smart then dont put quotes on very
i fomished thr challwbge
I just stumbled across this and just wanted to say that the grimoire looks amazing and watching you make it was insanely cool, it's so impressive how many different skills went into this
I'm addicted to your videos! Where's the link to buy the book??? Make more, more! I want one! The music adds so much to the demonstrations, great selections.
This is one of the best diy videos I've ever seen. It's absolutely brilliant, thank you for sharing that with us, I enjoyed every moment of it
This was so cool! Your spellbook video got me into trying bookbinding over the last week or so. You do a really good job of showing the steps to create an amazing piece. Absolutely fantastic video
This is absolutely beautiful 😍I wish there was a bookbinding workshop near me. I make small journals. I would love to create something so beautiful as this.
Beautiful work. Great tutorial. ☺
How has PVA glue NOT sponsor you yet?
This is my first time watching someone making a book and HOLY SNAP! That was amazing? Yeah! I'd love to have a book like that or a shelf full of hand-made books like that... You are awesome
That is amazing! I can't believe the mind set of creative people. That is so wonderful. Thank you for sharing...
WOW! You are AMAZING!!! I love your work. The torch inside the castle was clever and with beautiful detail,paint job, and Fanatic earthly stuff. I so love it. My favorite was the wizard staff. Just so cool. The light in the ball could be a lot more powerful. Maybe more LED lights the same size? I want one.
Very nice videos from bookbinding, it inspired me and I started binding a book myself (130 pages A3). The beginning is done and I can not wait until it is completed. Thank you for the great inspiration.
Girl, save old used up credit/gift/whatever cards to spread glue. It'll save your fingers!
Beautiful work, and I loved your lap cats!
i mean you cant say that peeling pva glue off your fingers is NOT the most satisfying thing ever
@@edenmac7751 I'd rather not get sticky in the first place, but that's true.
Congratulações por sua arte.
You are amazing! What talent and patience. This book is beautiful. Thank you for sharing.
martina dabs another gallon of glue onto the spine. room fills with glue. there are no survivors.
She needs the glue so that you won't have an unstable book and she needs a lot of it
Hopefully among the non-survivors is Kavi Sugiharto Weber...
yup pretty much
There is never enough glue tbh.
wow now i understand the high price of this book..... my respect it is amazing!!!
I love watching you make magic with your hands with book binding or wand making.
I'm not planning to make my own book from scratch, but I am interested in the way you did the cover. 😍
Might someday he ambitious enough to give something like that a try.
more book videos please xD maybe try an arabesque or oriental design? this is so cool i wish i can buy that book idk if you can ship the book to indonesia tho :(
Malaysia, and same :/
@@extraSPARErib wut...
@@extraSPARErib what are you on about now? o.O
^ if I read that right, the universe just told you to die Jason. Maybe you should check your racism
@@dumblewhoree nice username btw
Recommend, for working with leather, a stitch groover. It puts a shallow groove in the leather so the stitching is below the surface. But you could use it for your gold leaf work. It will also give a different stain contrast due to removing the surface layer. All sorts of fun things.
I really enjoyed watching this video. I've always wondered exactly how books were made. The 'grimoire' part is was what caught my eye in the title. Your hair color is awesome too!
Dude. I wanna make one now. Not even to use as a grimoire but like for everyday planning or even journaling. It would really boost the mood!!!
+50 mana
+100% cast speed
outstanding work!
Just a tip, breathing in gold leaf particles is extremely bad, don't forget to use a mask.
Thanks for letting me know!
Is it gold or "gold"?
@@RossiaIsNoMore Gold leaf is in fact gold. But its been hammered so thin that its not all that expensive. I belive 80 mg of gold leaf is about 30 dollars.
gold is not at all harmful it is one of the unreactive metals in fact gold is used as medicines in many cultures 😁
Yeah...thanks for that....🙄
I come back and watch this every cpl months, I don't know why, I wish I was half as talented as this chick! And the patience astounds me! 👏👏👏Well Done!!
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Gg the vidéo 💯
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Lipstick, If I don't have the patience for making a grimoire.... Would it be ok for me to buy one?
Please, please, **please** see this. I have a little sister named Abigail. I will pay any amount. You choose. Money never meant anything to me. Just a tool to get what you need. I would like nothing more than to gift my little sister with this grimoire. Please. I am begging you. Will you please allow me to buy from you? This is the most beautiful art I feel I've seen in my life. I want my sister to have something to hold close to her heart. I see this as the perfect present for her. I don't even pray... and I'm praying right now that you'll be willing to consider it. Side note, you are unrealistically beautiful, what is this? Why do you look flawless to me? I'm sorry. Hopefully I'm not crossing any lines by saying that. But, just, I don't know what to say. You look incredible. Your hair, the gauges, your physique. ...your style... oh, my God, your style. Jesus. Okay... wow. Anyway. Uhh. I hope you have a nice day, or night, I guess. Depending on when you see this. If you do. Hopefully you do. I know it would mean the world to my little sister and believe me, I would make sure she knew who you were, so she could thank you if you were willing to part with it. It's almost haunting how good it looks.
As a wiccan, I find this very useful. And of course, it's just plain gorgeous the work you do. Thank you for sharing your talents!