1933

This archival, hand-sewn journal is made from 100 gsm, antique white Hahnemühle Ingres mouldmade paper from Germany, sewn with Irish linen thread in the linked pattern that was developed by the ancient Copts. This stitch allows the book to lay open easily at any page.

This book’s endbands are blue and white cotton, and its bookmark is goatskin.  Its boards are wrapped in a 1933 map of the Middle East, which required some conservation, but it is intact as mounted. Its spine is covered in cotton duck bookbinding cloth. 

The talisman in this book is an ancient (c. 15^th Century) Ottoman coin.  Ralph Waldo Emerson said in his “American Scholar” essay, “Life is our dictionary … This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it … Give me insight into to-day, and you may have the antique and future worlds.”