This archival, hand-sewn journal/sketchbook is made from 80 gsm Mohawk Superfine archival paper stitched with Irish linen thread in the linked pattern that was developed by the ancient Copts. This stitch allows the book to lay open easily at any page. The book’s leaves are decorated on recto, featuring vintage display advertising cuts that were printed using our 1882 Golding Pearl #1 printing press.
This book’s endbands and bookmark are French goatskin. Its boards are wrapped in a 1966 map of Northern Africa, including Egypt with the words from a 19th Century French traveler’s observations of the pyramids at Giza, and the book is half-leathered in Alran French goatskin that was processed at Rocky Mountain Leather Supply in Sandy, Utah.
The talisman in this book is an Egyptian 5 piastres coin depicting three of the pyramids at Giza.
This archival, hand-sewn journal/sketchbook is made from 80 gsm Mohawk Superfine archival paper stitched with Irish linen thread in the linked pattern that was developed by the ancient Copts. This stitch allows the book to lay open easily at any page. The book’s leaves are decorated on recto, featuring vintage display advertising cuts that were printed using our 1882 Golding Pearl #1 printing press.
This book’s endbands and bookmark are French goatskin. Its boards are wrapped in a 1966 map of Northern Africa, including Egypt with the words from a 19th Century French traveler’s observations of the pyramids at Giza, and the book is half-leathered in Alran French goatskin that was processed at Rocky Mountain Leather Supply in Sandy, Utah.
The talisman in this book is an Egyptian 5 piastres coin depicting three of the pyramids at Giza.
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