Hooray! The paper for my book cover arrived today all the way from California. Its thermochromic so it reacts to the heat of your hands as you hold and handle the book. When its not reacting to heat its a lovely dense gloss black. I've set it carefully aside and am hoping that it survives the book finishing process intact! I'm starting to get a bit anxious about the binding now because there are so many elements to the book that I will not be able to see working until its bound - I hope I won't have any disappointments!
I've been into the binders yesterday to run it all by him. Unfortunatley given the cost of this paper and that its not readily replaceable he's not happy to bind it as a full wrap cover as I'd intended - the pressure on the cover as its bound may damage the liquid crystals, so I'll be just applying it to the cover board afterwards but I think this will still work OK... hope so! I'm enjoying its pristine loveliness for now!
Well done on sourcing such an amazing material. What a clever front cover, its going to be different for whoever touches it. I think binding the cover separate to the book is the right option, I'm sure it wont even be noticed in the end.
ReplyDeleteIt must be so tempting to keep playing with this...looking forward to seeing it in the flesh.