This archival journal/sketchbook is made from 85 gsm Arches hand-laid, all cotton rag paper from France. It is sewin with Irish linen thread in the linked stitch pattern that dates to ancient libraries and allows the book to lay open readily at any page.
The book’s endbands are pigskin, and its bookmark is goatskin. The spine is covered in Italian calfskin that was processed at Rocky Mountain Leather Supply in Sandy, Utah, and its boards are wrapped in a contemporary road map of Illinois. Jemma Lewis marbled the original design of the printed endpapers.
Treasure binding began with monks in the 6th Century who would encrust volumes with jewels. During the Renaissance, there was a resurgence in treasure binding. This is a contemporary revival of treasure bindings in which a good luck charm has been embedded in the cover of this book.
The talisman in this book is a 1971 coin commemorating the one hundredth anniversary of the Great Chicago Fire. The fire burned for three days, and about 300 people lost their lives while another 00,000 lost their homes. The Chicago Water Tower is one of the few surviving structures from pre-fire downtown Chicago. Mrs. O’Leary’s cow kicking over a lantern is the apocryphal cause of the fire.
This archival journal/sketchbook is made from 85 gsm Arches hand-laid, all cotton rag paper from France. It is sewin with Irish linen thread in the linked stitch pattern that dates to ancient libraries and allows the book to lay open readily at any page.
The book’s endbands are pigskin, and its bookmark is goatskin. The spine is covered in Italian calfskin that was processed at Rocky Mountain Leather Supply in Sandy, Utah, and its boards are wrapped in a contemporary road map of Illinois. Jemma Lewis marbled the original design of the printed endpapers.
Treasure binding began with monks in the 6th Century who would encrust volumes with jewels. During the Renaissance, there was a resurgence in treasure binding. This is a contemporary revival of treasure bindings in which a good luck charm has been embedded in the cover of this book.
The talisman in this book is a 1971 coin commemorating the one hundredth anniversary of the Great Chicago Fire. The fire burned for three days, and about 300 people lost their lives while another 00,000 lost their homes. The Chicago Water Tower is one of the few surviving structures from pre-fire downtown Chicago. Mrs. O’Leary’s cow kicking over a lantern is the apocryphal cause of the fire.
