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I have been experimenting with paper marbling and have managed to get some results good enough to cover some small notebooks.

The paper is treated with a saturated solution of alum and left to dry overnight. The size is 4tbsp methylcellulose dissolved in 16c water. I used Golden brand liquid acrylics, which floated well, but the final results lack saturation. I will try using inks next time to get colours with more punch.

I also bound a copy of Time and the Gods by Lord Dunsany.

I used printer paper on three tapes and sewed headbands. The text is from the Gutenburg Project.

I formatted the plain ASCII text in Word, converted it to PDF, and ran the result through a utility to arrange the pages into signatures. The utility, aptly named Bookbinder, does what it says on the tin. It took some trial and error to get everything just so, but the result turned out well.