A friend just sent me a link to Mourir auprès de Toi, a stop motion animation made by Spike Jonze using the felt and embroidered book cover creations of Olympia Le-Tan. If you haven't already seen it (the post appeared in October 2011) go check it out today. The Atlantic Wire piece I've given you a link to explains the project, includes the embedded video, and also has a very short "how it was made video."
If you go to Olympia Le-Tan's website and check in the collections section you can see close ups of the book clutches and how they open, like this one of Doctor Zhivago.
