1948 Indiana
NFS: This work is commissioned.
This archival, hand-sewn journal/sketchbook is made from 100 gsm, rose Hahnemühle Ingres mouldmade paper from Germany, sewn with Irish linen thread in the linked stitch pattern that dates back at least to the Ancient Copts. It allows the book to lay open easily to any page.
This book’s endbands are blue and yellow silk, and its bookmark is split French goatskin. Its spine is covered in Dubletta cloth from the Netherlands, and its boards are wrapped in a 1948 road map of Indiana distributed by Sunoco Service Stations.
Treasure binding began with monks in the 6th 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 book is an early 20th Century transit token from Indianapolis Railways, who operated the Interurban streetcars. More than 12,000 Hoosiers died in service during World War II, and more than 17,000 returned home following the war, having seen the world and mortality too. It is entirely possible that this token in a pocket and this map in hand accompanied a young soldier or nurse around their home state, eyes filled with new appreciation for the beauty and peace of home.
NFS: This work is commissioned.
This archival, hand-sewn journal/sketchbook is made from 100 gsm, rose Hahnemühle Ingres mouldmade paper from Germany, sewn with Irish linen thread in the linked stitch pattern that dates back at least to the Ancient Copts. It allows the book to lay open easily to any page.
This book’s endbands are blue and yellow silk, and its bookmark is split French goatskin. Its spine is covered in Dubletta cloth from the Netherlands, and its boards are wrapped in a 1948 road map of Indiana distributed by Sunoco Service Stations.
Treasure binding began with monks in the 6th 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 book is an early 20th Century transit token from Indianapolis Railways, who operated the Interurban streetcars. More than 12,000 Hoosiers died in service during World War II, and more than 17,000 returned home following the war, having seen the world and mortality too. It is entirely possible that this token in a pocket and this map in hand accompanied a young soldier or nurse around their home state, eyes filled with new appreciation for the beauty and peace of home.
NFS: This work is commissioned.
This archival, hand-sewn journal/sketchbook is made from 100 gsm, rose Hahnemühle Ingres mouldmade paper from Germany, sewn with Irish linen thread in the linked stitch pattern that dates back at least to the Ancient Copts. It allows the book to lay open easily to any page.
This book’s endbands are blue and yellow silk, and its bookmark is split French goatskin. Its spine is covered in Dubletta cloth from the Netherlands, and its boards are wrapped in a 1948 road map of Indiana distributed by Sunoco Service Stations.
Treasure binding began with monks in the 6th 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 book is an early 20th Century transit token from Indianapolis Railways, who operated the Interurban streetcars. More than 12,000 Hoosiers died in service during World War II, and more than 17,000 returned home following the war, having seen the world and mortality too. It is entirely possible that this token in a pocket and this map in hand accompanied a young soldier or nurse around their home state, eyes filled with new appreciation for the beauty and peace of home.