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This is the Triangle Book. It has wooden covers, coptic binding and about 168 pages of an off-size: as tall as A4 but not as wide (because the wood wasn’t as wide and I didn’t feel like gluing more wood to it.)

It also has five strings the same color as the binding hanging down from the edge of the triangle to near the bottom. This is ‘artsy’ with a capital F, verdad?

But it only took lots of sanding, two or three varnishings and more sanding to get it to look right. For some reason I couldn’t get a handle on it. The inlay on the back, for example, took a week to get right and it’s still not completely what I wanted.

Practice, I suppose, is next on my agenda. In fact, next week we will have three books from my Chinese - or is it Japanese - Stab Binding Series.

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