"Rustic Bible"
So here are sort of "before and after" shots of the Rustic Bible project.
I have this great customer who gives me challenging ideas to work with. for this job, He wanted me to use these thick leather covers from old brochues to cover his Dad's old beat up Bible. He collaborated with me a lot on this design and it turned out to really be what we were hoping for and still practically designed.
These are my favorite kinds of repair projects. It's like survival bookbinding ("here's a beat up old book and some limited, used materials. make something good"). This is how I started bookbinding. I just had some things lying around.
I still mostly use repurposed/discarded, scrap materials but it gets more challenging when it's a repair job because of all the limitations. This is always why I encourage customers to pitch me the idea before they assume it won't work, is too weird, or that I won't do it. The truth is, I'm incurably taken with these challenges and will bend over backwards to make "weird ideas" great books.
