garbage cans & wastebaskets
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 theyre 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.in addition to how to drawings close up detail photographs and simple stitch diagrams a gallery of eco books from an international roster of artists provides inspiration . p