Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2020/04/15/crafting-a-leather-bound-spe.html
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Hardest part is sourcing the human skin.
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I don’t know, I often think I have too many neighbors. Hmm.
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That might be but even if you’re an accomplished murderer, doesn’t mean you’re also a talented tanner.
At least you won’t have neighbours to complain about the smell.
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Is it weird that I recognised she is Norwegian by her Moccamaster coffee maker? Moccamaster are by no means a Norwegian brand but they are everywhere here.
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I have done a little crafting in leather, although not my own tanning. I own sharp objects but haven’t even really threatened anyone with any of them. That’s about as close to accomplished or talented in either of those categories as I come. Also, to be fair, I actually like most of my neighbors, or at the very least their dogs.
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Are you seeking to impress someone who can use peptide mass fingerprinting?
Of the thirty we have tested so far, twelve have bindings from a nonhuman animal of origin and eighteen are indeed tanned human skin. The scientific process of peptide mass fingerprinting, or PMF, uses unique peptide markers in the collagen of each animal family to determine the leather’s source.
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Marbled endpapers would have been a nice bonus.
https://www.adelaide.edu.au/library/special/exhibitions/cover-to-cover/marbled-endpapers/
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As much as I love marbling, it is really more a feature of early modern printed books rather than one of medieval manuscripts and thus would have been out of place here. I do agree, though that black endpapers were a bit uninspiring.
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that video held my attention completely as though by magic; fascinating.Spellbinding even.
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