Ugly old books gets New Clothes

Do you have a lot of ugly books that you really want to keep but not look at? I do.

Some are bought from the library (and therefore covered in ugly plastic) or, like the new English-Swedish dictionary, with ugly bright colours that you don’t want shining in your eyes every time you look up a word.

In a Swedish home furnishing magazine (I don’t remember in what magazine) I found this great idea: They had wrapped a whole pile of books in beautiful fabric. I took that idea – and now I’ve dressed some of my books in wrapping paper from IKEA (I’m going budget here!).

But the trick is not the wrapping, but the computer made labels that makes the books look old fashioned and beautiful. I made mine in Illustrator.

Measure the spine of the book and adjust the font size to how wide it is (the bigger the better/easier). Then print the labels on a black and white printer and glue them on the wrapping paper when you’ve wrapped the book! Easy and lots of fun!

So, here are the three books that got me started. Better huh?

Books in the window. Now you could actually use them as decorations around the house… I think books are beautiful.

I thought this was great fun, so I made a whole pile extra. And then I thought about the cooking books… they are gonna get new dresses soon! And if you want to give away a special book to a friend why not include their name on the spine of the cover!

This is what I’ve been wearing in front of the computer today. Mom-made hand knitted and pure wool. Sweeeat!

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