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Here's another triple chain-stitched book covered with upholstery fabric, completed yesterday.  The innards are collages, scrapbook paper and recycled magazine pages.

A word about recycled magazine pages ~ I've been finding an unusual assortment of magazines and magazine-style books at one particular thrift store recently.  So you might want to keep your eye on the magazine racks of your local thrift stores if you've a mind to recycle pages into handmade books.  Get the ones that have heavy paper.

Here's a sampling of what I've found ~

• drawings of Richard Diebenkorn
• a Japanese bluegrass magazine
• Communication Arts
• The Best of the Internet, from 1999
• books of piano (and other instrument) music -- old sheet music is usually too brittle to reuse
• European art magazines
• issues of Hand Papermaking
• an Arabic magazine of some sort

All great to use, all heavyweight paper which can be collaged or painted on, many pages with a lot of white space.

Have a great Friday!