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Endless Night
In the house on the edge of dark, she suddenly cried her pain...

The house gave a shiver and with the crash, words fell down from the shelf they have occupied for many long years in dust and cobwebs...In the same shutter, walls of the house cracked, peeled and crumbled in places, while the windows of her eyes broke, along with the small piece of sky she kept for so long.

Quietly, on the other side, he packed all his lies into the few old, brown, recycled boxes, then folded all the false promises and never-come-to life dreams and left, hope limping behind him sadly, without a goodbye.

Like a marionette with it strings cut, she fell on

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Nauticaby ~Maylar

Artisan Crafts / Folding & Papercraft / Bookbinding & Bookmaking

After some long(ish) time not being around, here I am, with a new miniature book.

This one has a nautical theme. As usual, it is 1.8 x 1.4 cm in size (0.70 x 0. 55 inch), so to suite 1:12 scale and it is an OOAK work. If interested, it is available on my Etsy:
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Hard covers are covered in green-blue faux leather and decorated with the gilded compass rose. Corner protectors and spine cover are also gilded, all with goldleaf. All is done from scratch (including the making of faux leather).

Inside, the book has 40 blank pages, dyed in earl grey tea and then re-dyed in specially prepared blue Indian ink. This gives the pages a special "feel" and many small and interesting imperfections.

Book is bound by saddle stitch. Pages are hand torn, before second dyeing, so the edges would keep that extra strong coloration visible when book is closed. Endpapers are digitally created (drawn in PS, by me), again from scratch and then printed on tea dyed paper.

You can see more details on YT: [link]

Hope you like it