Santa's Workshop
This archival, hand-sewn journal/sketchbook is made from 100 gsm, rose 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 red and yellow cotton, and its bookmark is red goatskin. Its spine is covered in goatskin, and its boards are wrapped in paper that was hand silk-screened in Japan in a factory where kimono fabrics are decorated.
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 the treasure binding in which a lucky charm has been embedded in the cover of this book.
The talisman in this book is a good luck charm from North Pole, Colorado, “Home of Santa’s Workshop.” You must have been very good this year.
This book is approximately 6.5 x 10” with a few more than 150 blank pages.