General Chat

Has anyone tried book folding? I have been looking on the internet and it seems relatively straightforward and a good way of making use of old books that no-one seems to want and I could donate the finished products to a local charity shop I support. Wondered if anyone else has tried it and if so how they got on.

Hi Linda my Mum has been doing it...she is doing hedgehogs at the moment....and doing them for my Nans nursing home....everybody loves them.... :-D

Personally, I think it is sacrilege.....I did Google some images though.....aren't they amazing?


book folding patterns on Google images

I also had to Google as had never heard of it.

Not sure if I like it or not.

There are some great ideas on Pinterest too Linda worth a look :-D

I also had to google. I thought the results were beautiful but my first thought was how would you go about dusting them. I would imagine that they're great dust collectors.

Totally wrecked my Kindle when I tried it! :-(

Lol

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:-D :-D @ Mayfield

I was thinking about trying hedgehogs first Mersey. There are also some other fairly simple patterns that I might give a go. I do agree Susan10146857 that it is sacrilege to fold a book however the best ones to use are the discoloured paperbacks that do not sell in the charity shops so folding is a way of raising some money for charity shops from an item that would otherwise go in to landfill. I have got some discoloured books that I keep for various reasons and am happy to reread but the cheap paperbacks that are discoloured are of no use and cannot be resold. Personally I wouldn't want a book folding because in my opinion they would just be dust collectors but I am told that they are becoming increasing popular.