Lincoln

This archival, hand-sewn journal/sketchbook is made from 100 gsm, blue-green Hahnemühle Ingres mouldmade paper from Germany, sewn with Irish linen thread in the linked stitch pattern that dates back at least to the Ancient Copts.  It allows the book to lay open easily to any page.

This book’s endbands are green and yellow cotton, and its bookmark is dark green goatskin.  Its spine is covered blue book cloth, and its boards are wrapped in paper that was hand-marbled by Betty Caponi in Monte san Giusto, Italy.

Treasure binding began with monks in the 6^th Century who would encrust volumes with jewels. During the Renaissance, there was a resurgence in treasure binding. This is a contemporary revival of the treasure binding in which a lucky charm has been embedded in the cover of this book.  

 The talisman in this book is a medallion from the sesquicentennial of the birth of Abraham Lincoln in 1959. Its obverse shows the log cabin where Lincoln was born in Kentucky in 1809, in a country where dreams still come true.

This book is roughly 6.5 x 10” and contains more than 150 blank pages.