Ciel

This archival, hand-sewn journal/sketchbook is made from 85 gsm, hand-laid Arches 100% cotton rag archival paper stitched with Irish linen thread in the linked pattern that was used as early as 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 spine is covered in French goatskin processed by Rocky Mountain Leather Supply in Utah, and its boards are wrapped in paper that was hand-marbled by Jemma Lewis in Wiltshire, England.

The talisman in this book is a souvenir medallion from the building of the Eiffel Tower for the 1889 Exposition Universale in Paris.  Its obverse reads “Souvenir de mon ascension au 13me etage de La Tour Eiffel,” a medal for climbing the first story.  The face shows the Eiffel Tower amid other Paris landmarks, including the obelisk at the Place de Concorde, Invalides, Le Senate, Sainte Chapelle, Saint Etienne, the Arch de Triomphe, and Notre Dame. Tower, even among the brilliant.