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Eco Books: Inventive Projects from the Recycling Bin

Here are projects for the "pages" : 40 innovative book-making ideas using recycled and green materials! More than just earth-friendly, they're also beautiful, clever, and witty, stitched with traditional binding techniques. Egg cartons, wood, beer cans, and cassette tapes morph into covers, while brown bags, coffee filters, and discarded newspapers are transformed into pages. Create a boxed set of cereal box books, an exposed stitch sketchbook out of cardboard and remnants, and even a faux leather journal made from teabags.

Audience
adult
Length
short · 144 pages

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