Rockies

This archival, hand-sewn journal/sketchbook is made from 100 gsm, antique white 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 brown and yellow cotton, and its bookmark is pigskin.  Its spine is covered pigskin, and its boards are wrapped in a 1943 map of the Western United States.

 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 1926 Buffalo nickel.  The buffalo was the first animal minted to a circulating coin of the United States Government that was not an eagle, a status it held for more than ¾ of a century until state Quarters were issued in 1999.

This book is approximately 6.5 x 9.5” with a few more than 150 blank pages.