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Embroidered Book Covers

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The is a website called abebooks.com, they sell new and used books and occasionally have articles related to books. I saw one yesterday that featured embroidered book covers. Actual covers, not jackets. I don't know how to send a link to this so maybe you can search for it with the url. They were amazing and pretty costly. Fun to look at.
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Is this the article you found? Those covers look amazing! Now I'll go and read the article....

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Amazing covers. imagine how much work went into these when they were first done.
Thanks carolanne for finding it and thank you, mechie, for the link.

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Thanks both for pointing me to something so beautiful!
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Wow that is amazing!!!!!!! :shock: :shock:
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Oh! I say!!!
What amazing work! :D
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Really beautiful !!!! Can't imagine how long it took to make them for the books!

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They are beautiful. So much work in them too.
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Absolutely beautiful and amazing :stars: :stars:
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mechie wrote:Is this the article you found? Those covers look amazing! Now I'll go and read the article....

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OOH, mechie, that's amazing. Thanks. Glad everyone liked them. :cake: :tea:
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carolanne wrote: OOH, mechie, that's amazing. Thanks. Glad everyone liked them. :cake: :tea:
You're welcome. Although, I can't take credit for finding it. It took hubby's superior computing skills (at least superior to mine :P ). He found it in about 30 seconds after I'd spent about 10 minutes trying to find it :roll: . Just glad we could help. It was really a fun thing to see.

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mechie wrote:
carolanne wrote: OOH, mechie, that's amazing. Thanks. Glad everyone liked them. :cake: :tea:
You're welcome. Although, I can't take credit for finding it. It took hubby's superior computing skills (at least superior to mine :P ). He found it in about 30 seconds after I'd spent about 10 minutes trying to find it . Just glad we could help. It was really a fun thing to see.

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Oh, that can be so annoying. But those fellows sure can be useful sometimes :lol: :lol:
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