This archival, hand-sewn journal/sketchbook is made from 100 gsm, 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 lay open easily at any page.
The book’s endbands and bookmark are goatskin. Its boards are wrapped washi paper that was hand silk-screened in Japan in a factory where kimono silks are decorated, and its spine is covered in Alran French goatskin that was processed at Rocky Mountain Leather Supply in Sandy, Utah.
Treasure binding began with monks in the 6th Century who would encrust volumes with jewels to demonstrate their worth to a largely illiterate populace. 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 book is a functioning ladies’ Lucerne Swiss pocket watch. This book was created for the Columbus Challenge, “Yes And,” at the Déja Vu Art and Fine Craft Show, on the theme “Yes to the future, And preserve the past.”
This archival, hand-sewn journal/sketchbook is made from 100 gsm, 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 lay open easily at any page.
The book’s endbands and bookmark are goatskin. Its boards are wrapped washi paper that was hand silk-screened in Japan in a factory where kimono silks are decorated, and its spine is covered in Alran French goatskin that was processed at Rocky Mountain Leather Supply in Sandy, Utah.
Treasure binding began with monks in the 6th Century who would encrust volumes with jewels to demonstrate their worth to a largely illiterate populace. 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 book is a functioning ladies’ Lucerne Swiss pocket watch. This book was created for the Columbus Challenge, “Yes And,” at the Déja Vu Art and Fine Craft Show, on the theme “Yes to the future, And preserve the past.”
