scraps in Scotland?

i used to do this in the very early seventies.

I kept them all in a book and if you wanted to swap them then you put them above the page so other girls could look at them and offer you a swap.

I remember a big girl [about14] gave me her book of scraps and I felt as if I had won the lottery

bride and grooms were always popular as were the cherubs.

I think you can still get them these days

We certainly used to do it Down South, and also swapped beads and marbles in the 50s. The collecting and swapping and pasting of scraps into books started in the 19th century - the motifs were printed in Germany. Swapping of buttons and bits of material for quilts were also popular. I am guessing that the modern hobby of scrapbooking, which is much more fancy, developed out of this.

Yeah, used to do this in the early 60s...the special scraps were the ones with glitter on!

Good grief!! just brought back some smashin' childhood memories. I used tae spend ages swappin' ma scraps wi' ma mates. Ye wurr a big hit if ye hud any glittery waans. Yon wee cherubs wurr a big hit tae. When ye hud shoved them all intae a book, the spine on yer book wiz at breakin' point! It wiz an obsession......

I had never heard of the tradition. It sounds lovely.