Visionary

This archival, hand-sewn journal is made from 100 gsm, rose Hahnemühle Ingres mouldmade paper from Germany, sewn 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.

This book’s endbands are red and yellow silk, and its bookmark is goatskin.  Its boards are wrapped in paper that was hand-marbled by Katherine Brett at Payhembury Papers in Cambridge, England, and its spine is covered in goatskin from Rocky Mountain Leather Supply in Utah.

The talisman in this book is a medallion issued by a French electricity and gas utilities company for 25 years of service.  It features Prometheus, who carried fire in a fennel stalk from the gods to restore it to Earth after it was taken away by Zeus.  A trickster, his name literally means “fore-thinker,” a visionary.