Yalta

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 dates back to the ancient Copts. This stitch allows the book to lay open easily at any page.

 This book’s endbands are brown and yellow cotton, and its bookmark is calfskin.  Its spine is covered in Belgian bookcloth, and its boards are wrapped in a 1942 map of the Levant States.

 Treasure binding began with monks in the 6^th 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 journal is an ancient (c. 15^th Century) Ottoman coin fragment. Civilizations change, but their relics live on.  This archival book may outlast us all.

This book is roughly 6 x 9” with more than 150 blank pages.