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Badgertide (Boarhide Bindery) @badgertide.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

#45-54 Wolves Upon the Coast Not the most complex binding I've ever done, but this was a fun little project for my tabletop group. A friend did all of the typesetting and I got as creative as I could given the circumstances

Ten hand bound pamphlets of Wolves Upon the Coast

The spines of ten pamphlets. There is a leather strip running along the spine and there are simple beaded decorations

The interior of the pamphlets. These pages illustrate various tables and rules for the game.

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Badgertide (Boarhide Bindery) @badgertide.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

I never did share my new boys. Halley and Herschel are still around, but say hello to Kuiper, Sagan, Fowler, and Fenrir!

A brown rat being held in one hand. His name is Kuiper

A white rat being resting his chin on my hand. His name is Sagan.

A dirty blonde rat on a bed. His name is Fowler

A piebald rat being held in a small hammock. His name is Fenrir.

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Badgertide (Boarhide Bindery) @badgertide.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

I did not realize that this stupid little idea was beloved. Did I blink and it became A Thing while I wasn't looking?

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Badgertide (Boarhide Bindery) @badgertide.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

Stream had to contend with 1MB/s up speed, but here's the spoils of today's slideshow. Leather is painted and waxed.

Green leather with the words "Sacred and Terrible" painted on. The leather is polished and very shiny.

Raw undyed leather with a maker's mark shaped like a badger

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Badgertide (Boarhide Bindery) @badgertide.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

A slow day today. I have a couple of copies of Moby Dick that need to be covered, so I made a big roll of blue bookcloth. I prefer to fill cotton cloth with starch paste and blue acrylic

A large square of cotton cloth smeared in blue paste to dry

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Badgertide (Boarhide Bindery) @badgertide.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

Okay, it's not perfect, but a dunk in the green bath fixes even the streakiest dye job.

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Badgertide (Boarhide Bindery) @badgertide.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

Did an impromptu stream today on twitch.tv/badgertide and made a fresh hammock for Halley and Herschel. It's so soft and luxurious.

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Badgertide (Boarhide Bindery) @badgertide.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

It's a time-consuming and labor-intensive process, but I do love sewing endbands. Once you get a rhythm going, there are basically no rules. Plan things out, make things perfectly symmetrical, or throw balance to the wind. It will look good in the end.

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Badgertide (Boarhide Bindery) @badgertide.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

Cloth bookmarks. Ribbon ain't gonna cut it this time. Used heat'nbond to get double-sided soft cloth. Bookcloth is too crunchy for this kind of application.

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Badgertide (Boarhide Bindery) @badgertide.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

#44 Yellow Playing around with a different binding style. I deeply dislike case binding and yet I've spent years doing it. So I'm trying something new to make sturdy, large-format books that open easily.

A large yellow book with black fabric corners. The book is bound in cork fabric

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Badgertide (Boarhide Bindery) @badgertide.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

Accidentally cut the cloth turn-ins too aggressively, but it's no big deal. A quick patch and no one will ever know my secret...

The cloth is cut at an angle and distance that would leave a sliver of grey board exposed after pasting down.

But a small patch at the corner will fix this issue. After pasting down the corners, you can't tell that anything is wrong

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Badgertide (Boarhide Bindery) @badgertide.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

#43 Pastoralia I think I love cork as a covering material. It's not as toolable as leather and it doesn't pare very well, but it's soft and warm and it just feels great to touch. What I DON'T like is case binding. I think I might never do a case binding ever again.

A half leather, half cork book with a printed cover. The book is brown with a picture of a caveman staring at a vending machine.

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Badgertide (Boarhide Bindery) @badgertide.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

#42 Meditations Playing with hollow spines and glued-on boards. Not sure I love the techniques yet, but I think this one came out all right. Good enough to send out into the world.

A half-leather bound book with orange and blue marbled paper covers. The book is Meditations by Marcus Aurelius.

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Badgertide (Boarhide Bindery) @badgertide.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Experimenting with graphite edges for a new project. I've tried this before, but it's never really worked out. This time I mixed the graphite with paste and it seems to be working out a lot better

Book with black pages, but the glare from a light source is very reflective

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Badgertide (Boarhide Bindery) @badgertide.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

#36-40 Wrap-up for this year's book spree. My theme this year is "Faux Leather". Didn't get as many books done as I wanted, but it was still educational. From left to right, we have cork fabric, stained cork, grape leather, cactus leather, and "premium" cactus leather. I'll put titles on 'em later.

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Badgertide (Boarhide Bindery) @badgertide.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

It's cold today, so everyone is being snuggly.

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Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

Please, please archive your work. Please. I’ve recently been saving lots of my essays as pdfs just so the Internet doesn’t suddenly delete them all (this happened to a whole load of blogs I wrote for The Independent years ago). I don’t want you to wake up and suddenly find your work gone like I did.

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Badgertide (Boarhide Bindery) @badgertide.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

LaGrange distracting me from my work by being uncharacteristically cuddly. Why's he being so affectionate today?

A large brown rat looking up hopefully for treats.

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Badgertide (Boarhide Bindery) @badgertide.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Jigs. For when you have 11 tiny books and they all need to be the exact same size. Just put tape on it, it'll be fine.

A carpenter's square making sure that this jig is 90 degrees

A bunch of tiny books lined up to be trimmed. They will have the tops cut off with a very sharp chisel

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Badgertide (Boarhide Bindery) @badgertide.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Paper sealing tests: Starch paste Can't believe I didn't try this last time. Conclusion: not sure that I like this method very much. It warps the paper as it dries. Though I use a very watery paste mixture, so maybe I'll try again with less water

A blob of starch paste. Ready to paste the edge of this paper to avoid the burned edge flaking off

The dried paste has caused the paper to warp slightly.

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Badgertide (Boarhide Bindery) @badgertide.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Trying different methods of sealing this page. Can't have charcoal getting all over the other pages. This method uses a 50/50 mix of turpentine and beeswax to create a spreadable paste that you can use as a wax polish

A page with scorched edges being sealed with cold wax. The desk is messy

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Badgertide (Boarhide Bindery) @badgertide.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Playing with fire for the Sacred and Terrible Air project. Going to try sealing the edges of this page and see how that plays out.

Several pages set up for burning. They have sections marked off with various types of green or wax to see how they affect the burn

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Badgertide (Boarhide Bindery) @badgertide.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Spoils for the day. Five sewn and glued-up text blocks ready for trimming

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Badgertide (Boarhide Bindery) @badgertide.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Let's get down to business. Lots of work to do this month.

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Badgertide (Boarhide Bindery) @badgertide.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

#35 Microscope RPG I've been interested in this game for a long time, so I needed a physical copy to share with my tabletop group. This is a 48-hour fast book with a waxed paper cover. The spine was added as an afterthought, but it serves its purpose pretty well. www.lamemage.com/microscope/

A hardcover copy of Microscope RPG on a green cutting mat

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Jabberwick ⭐🎪👁️ @jabberwick.com · 10/01/2025

Writhing, king of wyrms (She/her)

Digital art by jabberwick. Coloured illustration. A wyrm resembling a mix between an archaic amphibian and quilted blanket. She wears a jester hat, and her tail ends in a gold crown.

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Badgertide (Boarhide Bindery) @badgertide.bsky.social · 18/02/2024

#34 Apocalypse World This started as an offhand need for a rules reference that spiraled out of control. She's not the prettiest, but she works. Learned a bit about heat transfer vinyl and how to get a book put together in less than two days. The leafs are so small, it printed on 20 pages!

Hand bound copy of Apocalypse World RPG. It's a red cloth bound book with a black vinyl cover. The cover features a scantily clad feminine figure in a gas mask.

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Badgertide (Boarhide Bindery) @badgertide.bsky.social · 14/01/2024

Said goodbye to my last boy recently. Tycho was a good boy and he kept me company for longer than he had any right to. I will get new boys, but there's no replacing you. Goodbye stinky man

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Badgertide (Boarhide Bindery) @badgertide.bsky.social · 23/11/2023

#33 Stone Butch Round 3 Ooo boy, this was a fun one. I was a bit late for their birthday, but my sibling loved the book, and so do I. I have a couple of gripes with the final product, but it's still the closest I've ever gotten to a flawless book.

A black leather-bound copy of Stone Butch Blues.

Close up of cut out title showing marbled pattern underneath

Showing the book's marbled edge and multicolor headband

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Badgertide (Boarhide Bindery) @badgertide.bsky.social · 12/11/2023

Just finished a commission for my local DSA chapter. 10 copies of On Practice and Contradiction for the book club meetings. I really like writing in books, but there's never enough space to get a thought in there. I learned a lot about managing large pipelines with this project.

10 hand-bound copies of On Practice and Contradiction

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塑料巫醫 Plastic Shaman @psiop.kawaii.social · 06/10/2023

Everyone remembers this guy as the "You can't cut back on funding" guy, but he's also the guy who tells you that no amount of extra roads will be able to reduce the amount of traffic without a (mostly train based) mass transit system. Truly a man ahead of his time.

A screenshot from sim city 2000. The angry Transit advisor is telling the player that "we have too many roads. remove some to save on maintenance." In the backround, a highway full of traffic is visible.

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Badgertide (Boarhide Bindery) @badgertide.bsky.social · 06/10/2023

So NotJustBikes got bullied off of bluesky. I am so fucking tired of people disowning and harassing valuable progressive speakers over the most insignificant shit. I disagree with his opinion, but floating the idea that US urbanism is beyond saving is NOT a big deal.

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Badgertide (Boarhide Bindery) @badgertide.bsky.social · 29/09/2023

Book #21 - Stone Butch Blues #2 Made for a friend of mine. I tried to make it as lesbian as possible. Maybe I went overboard? In any case, my sister saw this one and now she wants a copy as well.

The headband of the book. The hand-sewn band fades between the colors of the lesbian pride flag

Book endpapers. They were made with a turkish marbling technique and were described as "lesbian ice cream"

Leather book spine, also colored with turkish marbling

Finished book. The plain, unadorned cover contrasts with the garish colors elsewhere

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Badgertide (Boarhide Bindery) @badgertide.bsky.social · 11/08/2023

Book #20: Stone Butch Blues Finished a long-dormant project today. Experimented with half-leather binding and marbled leather. Very pleased with these results overall.

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Badgertide (Boarhide Bindery) @badgertide.bsky.social · 10/07/2023

Working on getting a few projects wrapped up. This one is a copy of Stone Butch Blues. I think it needs a half-leather case

Supplies for bookbinding. A text block laid out over book board in preparation for making the cover.

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