Outer Dowsing

This journal/sketchbook is made from 85 gsm Arches hand-laid, all cotton rag paper from France.  It is sewn with Irish linen thread in the linked stitch pattern that was developed by the ancient Copts and discovered in Nag Hammadi, Egypt in 1945.  This stitch allows the book to lay open at any page.

 Its endbands are blue and white cotton, and its bookmark is goatskin.  The spine is covered in goatskin, and its boards are wrapped in a retired nautical map showing the east coast of England from Outer Dowsing to Smiths Knoll, Including Indefatigable Banks.

The talisman in this book is a commemorative medallion featuring the 1860 S S Great Eastern, which, at 700 feet, was the largest passenger steamship at the time.  She was later sold to a cable company who used her to lay the first transatlantic telegraph cables.  Be big, be nimble.