Grimoire of the Eye

Millecuirs returns to our pages with another fantastic example of tomecraft.  This time it's the Grimoire of the Eye, featuring a hand-tooled leather cover, custom eye embossment, and some excellent weathering.

 

 

The Book of the Third Eye

 Mille Cuirs brings us another impressive example of tomecraft with the Book of the Third Eye.  Featuring a hand-tooled leather cover with custom made inset eye.

 

 

The Book of Pain

Professional book binder Alex Libris brings us this one of a kind tome.  It's a commissioned piece, and the carved leather cover embossment is based on the owner's "Lady of Pain" tattoo.  Featuring a cover of hand tooled leather with custom brass hardware and buckles. 

 

Folded Almanac Book Prop

The talented Eric Jordan is back.  This time he brings us a handy guide for dungeon delvers in the form of a medieval-era folding almanac.  He not only shares an extensive gallery of the finished prop, but an entire thread about the creation process.  That includes the trial and error approach he used to determine the page layout for the book.  He not only had to deal with multiple pages, but those pages themselves unfold into even more leaves.

 

Wikipedia has a great write up about this unique style of pocket library.

"A folded almanac, sometimes called a physicians folded calendar, girdle book, or vade mecum, refers to a type of medieval English almanac consisting of multiple folios which are folded multiple times and bound together to create a dense yet compact vessel for information which would be used in medical practice."

Grimoire of the Eye

Mille Cuirs brings us the Grimoire of the Eye, a handcrafted leather tome featuring custom embossments and an inset glass eye in the cover.

 

 

The Red Book

MilleCuirs returns to our pages with another fantastic project- the Red Tome.  This time it's hand-tooled red leather on a multi-layered geometric design, adorned with brass studs and inset jewels.  As always, absolutely beautiful work. 

 

Tome of the Third Eye

The gifted Mille Cuirs returns to our pages with this Tome of the Third Eye, featuring a hand-tooled leather cover and inset green glass eye.

 

 

Tome of the Yellow Eye

Another fantastic example of tomecraft from Mille Cuirs.  This time it's the Tome of the Yellow Eye, featuring a hand-tooled leather cover with custom glass eye inset. 

 

Encyclopedia of Occult Sciences

Another impressive tome from Alex Libris Book Arts.  This time it's the Encyclopedia of Occult Sciences, which features not only an incredible hand-tooled leather cover, but a fully developed interior as well.  Click through to see some of the interior pages.

Also, the props used to stage this photo are phenomenal.   

 

Tome of Strahd

It's been interesting to watch the "Curse of Strahd" campaign for Dungeons and Dragons become the equivalent of Chaosium's "Masks of Nyarlathotep".  Both are lengthy, multi-part adventures driven in large part by a plethora of documents and handouts, and gamemasters have embraced expanding the sheer number of props for players to interact with.

This recreation of the "Tome of Strahd" from AdSuccessful1184 is a good example.  They used an off-the-shelf leather journal from Amazon as the base, then customized it with both printed and pasted in pages.  The results are pretty impressive.  Click through on the link above to see an entire gallery of the tome with a lot more of the interior pages. 

 

 

Grimoire of the Skull

Another glorious example of tomecraft from MilleCuirs.  His latest grimoire features a hand-tooled leather cover and custom skull hardware.

 

 

Rosicrucian Tome

Professional bookbinder AlexLibris returns with this bespoke Rosicrucian-themed tome.  Hand bound in a tooled leather cover with custom hardware and embossment. 

 

 

Small Wonders

The talented Ksheyna Nightswood brings us these miniature tomes in 1/12 scale.  These would look awesome with Mythic Legions figures.

 

 

Tomecraft, Defined.

Ancient tomes and grimoires are a staple of Mythos propmaking, as the 345+ posts with the "Tomecraft" label here on Propnomicon can attest.  Over on YouTube, Adeels Bindery and Pen Art has been kind enough to post a complete, step by step guide into what exactly goes into recreating a medieval book.  That includes everything from creating the signatures of paper to "sculpting" the cover using multiple layers of laminated fiberboard.  The beautiful end result speaks for itself.

 

Book of Anubis

The talented AlexLibris returns with this Egyptian-themed tome.  Featuring a leather cover hand-tooled with hieroglyphics, the god Anubis, and brass insets.  

 

 

Titanic Tome

Sweet fancy Moses.  I think this massive leather tome from Velimira Designs might be the biggest one we've ever featured, and that's saying a lot.  

 

 

Tome of the Great Old One

A tableau featuring another impressive piece of tomecraft from MilleCuirs.  This time it's a Cthulhu-themed tome, complete with hand tooled leather cover and inset glass eyes. 

 

Triquetra Tome

Velimiria Designs returns to our pages with this hand-bound leather journal bearing the triquetra, or trinity knot.  I really like the chain.  Gives it that authentic "forbidden knowledge" feel.

 

 

Worn and Weathered Tome

This massive beast of a tome comes to use from the talented Sladjana Vukelic.  She has a very unique style of construction and weathering that I absolutely adore. 

 

The Oracle

Professional tomecrafter MilleCuirs returns to our pages with their latest, "The Oracle".  Featuring a custom-tooled leather cover with an inset glass eye.