My paperback copy of George Orwell’s Homage to Catalonia was in need of some love; its spine was broken, the pages were falling out, and the cover was pretty ugly to begin with (I can’t even track down the cover online, which suggests it’s a design that didn’t last long).

So I knocked out a new jacket, complete with buttons. I rebound the book with woodglue along the spine.

The colourful felt used is actually cut from a metre-length of kitchen cloth that I got at the supermarket.

The text is printed directly on to the felt. I fed an A4 piece of the felt through my (standard) printer. The text resolution was surprisingly crisp and attractive.