Lands and Peoples

This one-of-a-kind journal is upcycled from a volume of the 1960 Grolier Society series, Lands and Peoples: The World in Color. This, Volume 7, covered Latin America. I preserved the original decorative cover as I found it but added satin ribbon to anchor the new, blank pages on the inside to the cover. I bound the six signatures of pages (a term for groups of pages folded together) to the book cover using long and kettle stitches. These are visible on the spine. The pages of the journal are made from "water-stressed" paper. I include out-of-context quotes from the original book on several of the pages for use as writing prompts.