This archival, hand-sewn journal/sketchbook is made from 100 gsm, white Hahnemühle Ingres mouldmade paper from Dassel, Germany, made on the same site since 1584. It is sewn with Irish linen thread in the linked stitch pattern that was developed by the ancient Copts. This stitch allows the book to lie open easily at any page.
The book’s endbands and bookmark are goatskin. Its boards are wrapped in a 1930’s Hagstrom map of New York City and its environs, and its spine is covered with French goatskin that was processed at Rocky Mountain leather Supply in Sandy, Utah. The book has been hand-tooled and argented using modern irons crafted by Kevin Noakes in Rustington, West Sussex, England.
The talisman in this book is a souvenir of the opening of the East River Bridge. Today, we refer to it as the Brooklyn Bridge. The obverse of the coin reads: “Souvenir of the Opening of the East River Bridge, Mzy 24th, 1883. 1867-1883”
This archival, hand-sewn journal/sketchbook is made from 100 gsm, white Hahnemühle Ingres mouldmade paper from Dassel, Germany, made on the same site since 1584. It is sewn with Irish linen thread in the linked stitch pattern that was developed by the ancient Copts. This stitch allows the book to lie open easily at any page.
The book’s endbands and bookmark are goatskin. Its boards are wrapped in a 1930’s Hagstrom map of New York City and its environs, and its spine is covered with French goatskin that was processed at Rocky Mountain leather Supply in Sandy, Utah. The book has been hand-tooled and argented using modern irons crafted by Kevin Noakes in Rustington, West Sussex, England.
The talisman in this book is a souvenir of the opening of the East River Bridge. Today, we refer to it as the Brooklyn Bridge. The obverse of the coin reads: “Souvenir of the Opening of the East River Bridge, Mzy 24th, 1883. 1867-1883”
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