How to make a recycled paper mobile from the book Playing with Books: Upcycling, Deconstructing, and Reimagining the Book By Jason Thompson

This is a cool project from my latest favorite book, Playing with Books: Upcycling, Deconstructing, and Reimagining the Book.

Happy cutting! I think this would look cool with just about any shape. Click on the images to get the full directions on how to make a recycled book page mobile.

 

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Playing with Books:

Upcycling, Deconstructing, and Reimagining the Book

By

Jason Thompson

In these pages, Jason Thompson has curated an extensive and artistic range of both achievable upcycled crafts made from books and book pages and an amazing gallery that contains thought-provoking and beautiful works that transform books into art.

The content encompasses a wide range of techniques and step-by-step projects that deconstruct and rebuild books and their parts into unique, upcycled objects. The book combines in equal measure bookbinding, woodworking, paper crafting, origami, and textile and decorative arts techniques, along with a healthy dose of experimentation and fun.The beautiful high-end presentation and stunning photography make this book a delightful, must-have volume for any book-loving artist or art-loving book collector.

Jason Thompson is the founder and president of Rag & Bone Bindery, and author of Making Journals By Hand (Rockport Publishing 2001). He is highly regarded as a book designer with integrity who creates unique handbound books and other fine bindings, as well as a popular blogger who writes about bookbinding, book arts, artist books, and paper craft.

To see more inside peeks into Playing with Books, pop on over to this post at Jason's blog.

Comments

[Barbara Bassett]

I have started on so many book projects and never get one finished. Maybe this book would help!

[Camille]

The first book I ever cut up was 'The Catcher in the Rye'. That was also the last book I ever cut up.

[lionel valdellon]

Never thought of doing that with books. It just seems wrong somehow. But then I've always had a hard time throwing out even cruddy books. Looks like a lovely project though.

[Dawn]

I am a librarian in two small branch libraries, I tend to focus on electronic resources over print, but I do still have some print on my shelves. A couple of weeks ago a student comes up to me and asks me what the point of the library was- he was talking about the books on the shelves, not the information inside. I think it would be ironic to have a book like this that spoke of things one could do with other books - or even this one...

[Janel]

I have several books set aside to turn into book "safes" by cutting out the center and gluing the edges together. Now I know what to do with the pieces of pages I cut out!

[Tiffany]

I LOVE books! My favorite as a teen was Illusions by Richard Bach. I thought he was a genius! :)

[Mademoiselle Chaos]

I would never cut a book apart :D At least not one of those I own, as they are mostly pre - 1900 atlases, science publications and other stuff worth preserving...

[Ann]

My mom was a children's librarian and also loved to make things. She inspired me to read and craft too, but I have to admit I've not yet tried projects using old books as the supply.

[Erica Wiggins]

fave quote from one of my fave books: "You're just as sane as I am." --Luna Lovegood, "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix" ;)

[Pekoe]

I'm also a librarian but have no problem re-using (some!) books for art - some need to be saved intact, but others can be transformed to have new lives. I was just looking at this (Jason's) book in the bookstore the other day and thinking how great it is! Last book I cut up: a Tintin that was missing too many pages to be saved...I used some remaining panels to decoupage a stepstool. I think it was The Calculus Affair.