Many have studied for years to hone their craft. “There are tons of incredibly talented bookbinders who do this for a living and produce beautiful book art. “I’m not looking to make this a business,” TMB emphasizes. In the beginning, if she made a mistake, “I wouldn’t care, it was just going on my bookshelf.” But now, she says, it has to be nearly perfect “because some people are just not nice.” I’ve also started uploading tutorials onto YouTube, so everyone can freely access them.”īut, of course, the bigger the audience, the bigger the potential for trolls, mean comments, and pressure to make each book as perfect as possible. “I’m now at 91.8k on Instagram, which is just insane to me. She recently reached 109.9k on TikTok, and when one Instagram reel went viral, that account shot up from about 1,000 to 30k in about a week.
“I was just posting for fun so the first time one of my TikToks started climbing in views was very exciting.” The experience of TikTok growth She posted her first TikTok video in May and was tickled to get a few followers. But when it started taking off and I was getting lots of comments and followers, including her friends, she changed her tune and now thinks it’s really cool.” When TMB told a friend’s teen-age daughter she was starting a TikTok account for her bookbinding, “she looked at me as if I’d grown a second head.
She began posting photos and videos “mainly to have a record for myself of what I am making.” She started with the Game of Thrones series, buying a Cricut electronic die cutter specifically so she could design the covers, which she cuts from heat-transfer vinyl and irons onto fabric. “I thought, ‘I have a ton of bookbinding supplies, maybe I could do the same thing so everything would match and make the dream of a Beauty and the Beast library a possibility.” “They look so beautiful on a shelf,” she says. Then, for Christmas, she received about 20 Penguin Clothbound Classics and was smitten. Last year, she saw a TikTok bookbinding video and thought, “that looks like fun.” So, she watched a few YouTube tutorials, made some journals and sketchbooks, and honed her bookbinding skills. “I don’t have a double floor library, or rolling ladders, but I’ve started a lovely collection of books,” she says. But she loved books and thrilled to a scene in Disney’s 1991 Beauty and the Beast that showed a jam-packed, beautifully arranged library, with two floors and a rolling ladder.
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She wasn’t allowed to watch much television, but then again, she barely had time as she studied ballet at a professional school, aiming to be a ballerina, and played violin.
An early love of booksĪn avid reader, our bookbinder’s story (we’ll call her TMB, the initials of her social media handle), goes back to her childhood, when books were her major companions and best-loved entertainment. She just wants shelves of beautifully bound books designed with the old-timey aesthetic of a Penguin Clothbound Classic. She doesn’t want to be famous, create a business, or earn money from her tutorials. That’s My Bookshelf is the nom de plume of a bookbinder who is a bit of a unicorn – a rare breed who, in a few short months, garnered more than 200k followers across TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube, yet prefers to remain anonymous.
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