The ranger service collaborated with Toben Lewis of Baile Mòr Books for an event this week.

Participants gathered at Ardalanish beach for a clean-up and to search for items that could be recycled into book binding art. Our island coastlines collect a lot of rubbish that washes up from the sea, a sad reminder of how much plastic is thrown away.

In the afternoon some of us had a go at making our own books under Toben’s expert tuition. We began to transform a pile of potential materials…

We drilled and cut and stitched, learned the correct way to fold paper and tried a Japanese binding technique. We even included some paper made from seaweed.

Here’s the finished result! Trash transformed!