This is the first result. I bought this little travel checkerboard set for a buck. The board was a piece of printed and folded cardboard. The checkers were plastic. Perfect. I cut two pieces of the board for the front and back and odd pieces of the rest for reinforcement. The front hinge is where one of the folds falls. I reinforced and decorated it with some Japanese decorative masking tape in red with white polka dots. I also bound the raw edge on the spine side with this tape. Cut regular text paper pages, drilled holes in the spine edge and stitched with black embroidery thread in a Japanese stab binding.
To complete the story, I glued some of the plastic checkers to the cover.
This book is very similar in the making to my Day 1 book, the Rosarita case. The covers of both are made from thin cardboard, then stitched with a Japanese stab binding.
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