Book Bags
Compulsive shoppers will love bookbinder Barbara Schmelzer’s handmade souvenir
notebooks (right) crafted from ritzy paper shopping bags. From Fancy parfumiers’ gift
bags to bookshops and bakeries, the one-off hand-stitched hardbacks offer a place to slip in
other mementoes of shop-till-you-drop holidays – or weekends away – in
Wellington, Auckland, Sydney: you can even supply a collection from your favourite city for
her to hand-bind for you. Signed and numbered by the maker, the eminently collectable
Auckland in a Shopping Bag (also Wellington and Sydney) books come in two sizes (145 x 130 mm
and 85 x 85 mm), each with slipcover, for $150 and $75.
North & South, March 2006. |
