Twin binding of The Seventeenth Step

Twin binding of The Seventeenth Step is a bound book version of Katie Forsythe's Sherlock Holmes fanfic series The Seventeenth Step. It was created by Elarra. The book is about 20 cm high, printed on A4-sized paper.
The edges are painted with gold for the first part and silver for the second. 
==Gallery==
File:Twin binding 01.jpg|"This is not the book. This is a box to protect the book. I'm so fond of it that i'm actually considering making a box to protect the box."
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File:Twin binding 03.jpg|"Since it's Sherlock Holmes, I just had to make a secret compartment in the spine of the box. There should be a cocaine syringe in there, but there are limits to what I do for my art..."
File:Twin binding 04.jpg|"Materials for the box: Cardboard, paste marbled paper, leather."
File:Twin binding 05.jpg|"I marbled the paper myself, this one is inpired by the London fog of the 1880's."
File:Twin binding 06.jpg|"And here's the book! When I printed it out, it was massive. Someone in my class suggested that instead of making it into one single volume, I should make a twin binding of it. The idea suited the text wonderfully well, since the fics are about Holmes and Watson, and a bit about two halves fitting perfectly together."
File:Twin binding 07.jpg|"So this is a twin binding. It looks like two books stacked on top of each other, but as you can see..." 
File:Twin binding 08.jpg|"...it's really one volume."
File:Twin binding 09.jpg|"I had to include one of the original illustrations as well."
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File:Twin binding 11.jpg|"Since the seventeenth step in the title refers to the 221b Baker Street staircase, I printed the title... well, like a staircase."
File:Twin binding 12.jpg|"Soon I will post another entry about making the book, and how everything is thought through to fit with the text." (see "making of")
==Making Of==
File:Making of seventeenth step twin binding 01.jpg|"After I copied the whole body of text into Word and printed it on nice paper, I stitched the book with flax thread. When I thought about if I should wax the thread or not, then I remembered Sussex and the bees, so beeswax it was =)"elarra. Making of the "The Seventeeth Step" twin binding, 08 October 2011. (Accessed 19 June 2015)
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File:Making of seventeenth step twin binding 04.jpg|"After stitching it, I glued the spine and... wah, I really don't know what it's called in English, but well, I shape the spine."
File:Making of seventeenth step twin binding 05.jpg|"Then French headbands. I used silk thread, grey and blue for Holmes and Watson. There is a third thread that is just for tying the knots around, that you never see, and i made that red for hidden love, because I'm silly like that."
File:Making of seventeenth step twin binding 06.jpg|"After gluing on the cover boards I measured the leather for spine and corners."
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File:Making of seventeenth step twin binding 08.jpg|"This lovely machine is a Shärf-fix, you use it to thin out the edges of the leather."
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File:Making of seventeenth step twin binding 10.jpg|"Putting on the false raised binds (direct translation from swedish, haha), and then pasting on the leather."
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File:Making of seventeenth step twin binding 14.jpg|"Then time for the paper. This, too, is silver and blue for Holmes and Watson, I made it especially for this book. (The paper on the box, which I forgot to take a good picture of befor cutting it up, is made especially for this book to, with the London fog of the 1880's as inspiration)"
File:Making of seventeenth step twin binding 15.jpg|"Making the box =)"
File:Making of seventeenth step twin binding 16.jpg|"And then, at last, this is the title printing machine <3"
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==References==
Category:Crafts
Category:Sherlock Holmes Fanfiction
Category:2011 Fanfiction
Category:2001 Fanworks