Watch Fob

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 green and yellow cotton, and its bookmark is goatskin.  The spine is covered in goatskin, and its boards are wrapped in paper that was marbled in France for the Parisian bindery Relma.

The talisman in this book is an 1889 watch fob from the opening of the 1889 World’s Fair in Paris, for which the Eiffel Tower was built. The Exposition Universelle was one of the few World’s Fairs to make a profit, and its Eiffel Tower, which was intended to be dismantled in 1909, stands today because a radio antenna was attached to the top, and it became an essential communications device.   

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