1889

$175.00

This archival, hand-sewn journal/sketchbook is made from 100 gsm, rose 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 in a 1969 map of Western Europe, and the book is half-leathered in Indigo dyed goatskin processed at Rocky Mountain Leather Supply in Sandy, Utah.

The talisman in this book is a watch fob souvenir from the 1889 Exposition Universelle, the Paris World’s Fair where the Eiffel Tower was introduced.  The fair marked the 100th Anniversary of the storming of the Bastille which began the French Revolution. Thomas Edison appeared at the Fair with his latest phonograph invention.

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This archival, hand-sewn journal/sketchbook is made from 100 gsm, rose 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 in a 1969 map of Western Europe, and the book is half-leathered in Indigo dyed goatskin processed at Rocky Mountain Leather Supply in Sandy, Utah.

The talisman in this book is a watch fob souvenir from the 1889 Exposition Universelle, the Paris World’s Fair where the Eiffel Tower was introduced.  The fair marked the 100th Anniversary of the storming of the Bastille which began the French Revolution. Thomas Edison appeared at the Fair with his latest phonograph invention.

This archival, hand-sewn journal/sketchbook is made from 100 gsm, rose 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 in a 1969 map of Western Europe, and the book is half-leathered in Indigo dyed goatskin processed at Rocky Mountain Leather Supply in Sandy, Utah.

The talisman in this book is a watch fob souvenir from the 1889 Exposition Universelle, the Paris World’s Fair where the Eiffel Tower was introduced.  The fair marked the 100th Anniversary of the storming of the Bastille which began the French Revolution. Thomas Edison appeared at the Fair with his latest phonograph invention.