How To Make A Grimoire

There are two major ways you can go about actually making a grimoire. First, there’s the serious attempt to actually construct a book of astrological, and mythical study, containing both rituals and spells. This could be a collective effort that may end up being your hobby on the side, regardless of religion, or spiritual preference. The second way to do it is to come up with something completely ridiculous, and to do it just for fun. Imagine, hundreds of years in the future, someone finding a grimoire that detailed all the characters of Sesame Street, which were evil, and how the can be summoned. Complete with illustrations of Big Bird sacrificing Cookie Monster’s cookies to Bert and Ernie’s idol of the all-powerful Rubber Ducky.

There’s nothing like taking something that people have regarded with tense suspicion for hundreds of years, pointing your finger at it (or them), and laughing uproariously.

What will you need? Lots of supplies. Do things right, make it look thoroughly mystical. Get some pleather, Naugahyde, or even go all out and grab some leather, to bind the book in. Avoid using glue to hold the pages inside the leather binding. Instead of glue, use a good strong thread to sew the paper into the book; silk, actually, is very, very strong, and will hold your book together for a long time. For paper, select a good pulpy, true-color paper. Don’t get the standard bleached, boring old printer and copy paper just because you can easily get a couple stacks from the office. The paper should also be cut, –you can find someone to cut paper for you in any craft shop, so that it fits the piece of leather you’ve cut for your book. Remember, it’s needs to be a decent size, that when it folds in half, it looks like a book, not a pocket diary.

Before you write anything in it, consider what you want the text to actually look like. Don’t just go writing all over it without planning every page. The writing itself is important as well, if this is going to be your hobby. Pick up a nice fountain pen, or, learn to write with a quill pen. For the added extra touch, I suggest practicing calligraphy, as well as decorative lettering. Practice writing in clear, straight lines, and creating decipherable text. When you’re finished with each page, allow it time to dry, so that you don’t smudge the ink.