Gothic 2 Spine
Katrine Freggiaro
The Spine Candle Gift Box is the perfect gift for lovers of gothic home decor and the macabre. Ideal gothic gift for those dark at heart. Delivered to you or your loved one ready to gift in our signature Blackened Gift box.
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We are the makers of the iconic Spine Table Lamp. Born through the love of 2 artists adorning their gothic home with bones, and other pieces of human body parts. The Blackened Teeth's Spine Lamp shines a beautiful light on death. After all, we embellish the macabre
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One of the final projects in the North Bennet Street School curriculum is the Gothic Binding. After months focusing almost exclusively on modern fine bindings, with thin boards, thinner leather, and smooth, gradual curves, this solid historical structure was definitely a change of pace.
Extant examples of Gothic bindings date from as far back as the early fourteenth century, and while the structure never really went out of style for large, religious books, the solid, wooden-board construction was replaced by pasteboard over the course of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries (1). Gothic bindings evolved when text blocks were made from parchment, which has a tendency to curl and shift with changes in humidity, so the heavy wooden boards and metal clasps were necessary to keep the text block from warping. After the invention of printing, both the sheer volume of books being printed and the difficulty of using parchment as a printing medium contributed to paper becoming the text block of choice. Although parchment continued to be used for luxury volumes, the Gothic structure, designed to contain and control a parchment text, proved too labor-intensive and expensive, and eventually it was replaced by bindings with quicker sewing structures and cheaper materials.
This model is made from a composite of Gothic elements rather than being a reproduction of a particular book. The text block is a rebinding of Heloise and Abelard by George Moore, a book I had on hand which was suitably chunky (Gothic bindings look ridiculous on slim volumes). It is sewn on double raised cords, a very strong but also very labor-intensive sewing. Most Gothics were sewn either on double raised cords or slit leather thongs (2). We used cords for our models because they are more durable than leather. The primary endbands were also worked on cords, using the same type of thread as was used for sewing.
The cords are laced onto boards made of quarter-sawn oak, shaped to fit the shoulders of the text block. The boards were beveled on all other edges, and the cords were tightened and fastened into place with pegs.
The book is covered in hand-dyed calfskin, although alum-tawed skin was another common covering material. Covering is done differently than on modern bindings, since the leather remains full-thickness, and is cut rather than turned in at the head and tail of the spine.
Once the leather was dry, and I was sure it was completely stuck down across the bands, I decorated it. The blind tooling pattern is based on a historical example in one of our reference books; I loved the fleur-de-lis leaning in alternate directions.
The clasps are attached with brass escutcheon pins. The leather strips that attached the clasps to the backplate were often made of scrap leather from old bindings, laminated to waste parchment, so I used a different color leather with a random blind-tooled pattern and some more of my deed scraps to make the straps.
The final touch was to weave decorative endbands out of leather lacing, which cover up the primary endbands and the loose flap of leather that was left when covering. The leather could also simply be cut, or tacked over the primary endband, but I really loved the look of the woven leather and wanted to give it a try. I used the pattern from Headbands: How to Work Them, by Jane Greenfield and Jenny Hille.
The next book in the series is the Gothic Binding. The others in this series are: a Nag Hammadi codex, a late Coptic binding, a limp vellum binding, an alla rustic binding, a limp leather binding, scrolls, a field journal, and a wax tablet.
This style of binding emerged around the 14th century and trickled off in the 17th. It could be bound in full leather, however for economical reasons by the late 15th and 16th century we commonly see quarter bindings. Alum tawed or leather was a common cover material.
This model has alum tawed skin for the spine and quartersawn oak boards. The boards are beveled to fit the text block at the spine and beveled on the head, tail, and foreedge to create a square that meets the edge of the textblock.
Below you can see the process, we used a rasp to get the edges beveled, three edges are beveled quite steep to the edge of the textblock, while the spine edge is rounded to mimic a signature so that it fits perfectly with the textblock when laced in.
The book is nearly complete now. We just needed to add a clasp. We decided to do a little brass beg and vellum braid, as working with brass to make clasps is a whole other skill to learn! We are toying with working with brass for our Romanesque binding but a simple vellum braid suits this binding and it looks nice.
When I think of gothic novels, I think of Frankenstein or Dracula. So how can an author write an inspirational gothic novel? Gothic novels take place in moldering mansions, cold castles, or haunted houses, and they emphasize the fantastic, macabre, and otherworldly. An inspirational gothic novel has those same spine-tingling elements, but the protagonists rely on their faith (often feeble at the start of the novel) to confront their fears and the seemingly supernatural occurrences. Abigail Wilson has mastered the historical inspirational gothic novel genre, and Jaime Jo Wright writes the best dual-time inspirational gothic novels.
Sinister rumors of women mysteriously disappearing at Castle Moreau swirl around town. Someone leaves an old cassette tape with a mysterious interview on the hood of her car. And the elderly lady she was hired to assist acts normal at times and borderline violent at others.
In 1865, orphan Daisy Francois escapes her foster parents in answer to an advertisement for a housemaid. When she arrives, no one seems to know what to do with her, and no one seems willing to direct her duties in the understaffed Castle Moreau.
Anita Ojeda juggles writing with teaching high school English and history. When she's not lurking in odd places looking for rare birds, you can find her camping with her kids, adventuring with her husband or mountain biking with her students.
Anita Ojeda juggles writing with teaching high school English and History at a small private school for Native Americans. When she's not lurking outdoors looking for and photographing rare birds in odd places, you can find her hanging out with her husband, camping with her kids, or mountain biking with her students.
Soon to be a MAJOR MOTION PICTURE produced by M. NIGHT SHYAMALAN and starring DAKOTA FANNING.
You can't see them. But they can see you.
This forest isn't charted on any map. Every car breaks down at its treeline. Mina's is no different. Left stranded, she is forced into the dark woodland only to find a woman shouting, urging Mina to run to a concrete bunker. As the door slams behind her, the building is besieged by screams.
Mina finds herself in a room with a wall of glass, and an electric light that activates at nightfall, when the Watchers come above ground. These creatures emerge to observe their captive humans and terrible things happen to anyone who doesn't reach the bunker in time.
Afraid and trapped among strangers, Mina is desperate for answers. Who are the Watchers, and why are they keeping the humans imprisoned, keen to watch their every move?
A spine-chilling debut horror adventure set in the remote and sinister forests of Ireland, from critically acclaimed Irish writer A.M. Shine.
'A dark, claustrophobic read' T. Kingfisher, author of Paladin's Grace
'Readers get an intimate glimpse into the fraying edges of each character's psyches, the constant hunger, the paranoia, the loss of hope, and far worse... The Watchers will appeal to fans of Kealan Patrick Burke, Josh Malerman, and Scott Smith' A.E. Siraki, Booklist
A.M. Shine writes in the Gothic horror tradition. Born in Galway, Ireland, he received his Master's Degree in History there before sharpening his quill and pursuing all things literary and macabre. His stories have won the Word Hut and Bookers Corner prizes and he is a member of the Irish Writers Centre. His debut novel, The Watchers, has been made into a major motion picture produced by M. Night Shyamalan.
Follow him on @AMShineWriter and www.amshinewriter.com
It is a wide-ranging genre which includes Frankenstein, Dracula and Wuthering Heights. The success of recent novels such as Twilight continue its popularity. This timeline spotlights key moments in the evolution of spine-tingling Gothic stories.
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