A bookshelf made of chopsticks

Thomas Niederberger January 08, 2016 #art #furniture #do it yourself

We order food from a Chinese restaurant on an almost weekly basis. With every order we receive some chopsticks, which we won't use. For some reason I collected them for a while and thought about what I could do with them.
A few weeks ago I had the idea to build a bookshelf with the chopsticks.
The idea I had was to place every book on two sticks, then pile the sticks on top of each other in a rectangular way and then hang the shelf into a corner of my room. I'm very happy with the results even though it is not quite finished yet. (More sticks necessary...)
Chopsticks and structure of the shelf without books:
Two plain wooden chopsticks crossed on a grey fabric surface

The wooden chopstick shelf structure mounted on vertical slats, with crossed chopsticks but no books yet
I will need more sticks to finish. Right now the shelf looks like this with books:
The finished chopstick bookshelf with books resting on pairs of wooden chopsticks