tedorigawabookmakers

A mere three solid months after my last book creation, I have enjoyably folded, sewed, and glued a small, multi-page blank notebook of recycled everything: the signatures are recycled B5 sheets folded into quarters, the boards for the covers and spine are made from recycled cardboard from a shirt, the cover itself is a flyer for a performance of Puccini’s La Boheme (so even the title is recycled, eh?) The endpapers, yellow, are also recycled from a larger project. I think the thread (unwaxed, by the way) that holds the signatures together is not recycled; nor the glue. Recycled glue. That would be an interesting business model.

There are about 30 sheets/signatures so there are about 120 pages in this book - small enough to be cute but not large enough to actually be used as a notebook - at least not by anyone who writes in cursive. As you can perhaps see, the pen shows a bit about how big this notebook is.

However, this is an enjoyable book. I have no idea why but it makes me chuckle when I hold it, look at it, view it from afar. Perhaps because it is small and - perhaps - useless. Perhaps it is not so useless. It is a book to cheer and encourage the mirth of one’s heart. (From La Boheme?)

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