Handmade notebook in upcycling: hand-bound newspaper in a vintage book L'Enfant Roi 2024 by Robert Merle, white pages paper 130gr

This vintage book from Robert Merle's L'Enfant Roi becomes a unique notebook that will follow you everywhere. The covers are just sublime! Whether you turn it into a diary, travel diary, guestbook, pregnancy diary, or to draw, its blank pages are just waiting for your ideas!

Size:
 Pages (double-sided = 2 pages): 144
 Height: 19.8 cm
 Width: 12.5 cm
 Slice thickness: 2.7 cm
 Paper type: FSP white, 130 grams (+ 12 pages of the original book)

I bound the pages by sewing by hand with waxed cotton thread, using a Coptic binding to ensure an optimal flat opening.

More than a notebook, an upcycled book, these are stories, memories of the first reading of a favorite book. And to upcycle these old books that I collect full of dust, tasks, is to offer them a new life and avoid them the trash.
WWF estimates that depending on the scenarios, the end of life (household waste and recycling) would concern 107,000 to 233,000 t/year of books, all sources combined.
The notebooks I propose have been washed but they can have marks, stripes, discoloration, or other. It's upcycling, not new. But it is in old books that we make the best notebooks!
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Expedition:
The items are wrapped in tissue paper and, on request, I can make a gift package out of newsprint. Shipping is made via Colissimo.
I try to reuse cardboard packages already used to limit the impact on the environment, but sometimes I do not have any on hand and therefore use new ones that I invite you to reuse later for your own shipments.

Thank you very much for your visit. Do not hesitate to send me a message if you have any questions or if you are interested in a click & collect in Moëlan sur Mer. 2024