This archival, hand-sewn journal/sketchbook is made from 100 gsm, antique white Hahnemühle Ingres mouldmade paper from Dassel, Germany, made on the same site since 1584. It is sewn with Irish linen thread in the linked stitch pattern that was developed by the ancient Copts. This stitch allows the book to lie open easily at any page.
The book’s endbands are goatskin, and its bookmark is calfskin. Its boards are 1954 map of California, and the book is half-leathered in Badalassi Italian calfskin processed at Rocky Mountain Leather Supply in Sandy, Utah.
The talisman in this book is 1959 souvenir from the San Francisco Internation Exposition, celebrating the opening of the Bay and Golden Gate bridges.
This archival, hand-sewn journal/sketchbook is made from 100 gsm, antique white Hahnemühle Ingres mouldmade paper from Dassel, Germany, made on the same site since 1584. It is sewn with Irish linen thread in the linked stitch pattern that was developed by the ancient Copts. This stitch allows the book to lie open easily at any page.
The book’s endbands are goatskin, and its bookmark is calfskin. Its boards are 1954 map of California, and the book is half-leathered in Badalassi Italian calfskin processed at Rocky Mountain Leather Supply in Sandy, Utah.
The talisman in this book is 1959 souvenir from the San Francisco Internation Exposition, celebrating the opening of the Bay and Golden Gate bridges.
