Endbands=not as bad as I thought, in fact kind of fun to do!

So, here is a completed endband! Shoot, just realized I took no progress pictures, so there's no way to describe really how they are made, just um....just admire them in wonderment, ok?

So this is what it looks like from the spine.  Basically what happens is that you put your cord or whatever across the top of the pages (that white strip hanging off the sides) and then you take pretty silk thread and wrap it around the thread a bunch, and periodically stab it down through the text block and out through the spine, which is why there are those threads going down the spine. The whole purpose of endbands is to make a support for the leather that will eventually be going around the head of the book, since the pages are lower than the cover boards, the end bands make up the difference in height and give the leather something to lean on. Maybe that made sense, I don't know.

This is the beautiful marbled paper I've been eying for weeks and finally decided to jsut buy today. I am going to use it for the cover paper of the book I'm working on now--if the endband pictures were better quality you would be able to see that i chose thread colors that compliment this marbled paper quite nicely!

It snowed on and off all day which was kind of a bummer, but there was a beautiful cloudy sunset when I walked home so I guess it was all worth it :)