I called both Spink & Thackray (Leeds) and Shore Books (Norfolk). Shore offered a 12 day turnaround (inc. postage etc) with a better selection of leathers, which are sourced from J. Hewit. Expensive, but I want my book to look awesome. I had already mentioned that I think the book should be a dark brown/red to compliment the time period's production restrictions as well as the foil blocking.
I also spent the better part of the morning trying to find suitable textures for the pages. This came about as I had feedback from Jack, Ando and Paul as I made the final adjustments to the book. Using colours I had already sourced from the map I did, I applied them to the text, bearing in mind that the content of the book is being printed on 100gsm coated white paper. I decided that instead of some sort of border, that a text wrap would suffice and using a portion of the cover illustration would be suitable.
I ended up choosing the darkest brown, as the texture choices that I whittled down from the original 51 had to match each other in terms of creases and ensure that the text colour did not clash or lose readability. The textures themselves had to have the opacity lowered to ensure that the final outcome did not look cheesy.
Finally, I finished off the spine and cover illustrations/double double checked all the documents and made sure they were ready to print.
