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This archival, hand-sewn journal/sketchbook is made from 100 gsm,antique white 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 white cotton, and its bookmark is blue goatskin.  Its spine is covered in goatskin from Rocky Mountain Leather Supply in Utah, and its boards are wrapped in paper that was hand-marbled by Renato Crepaldi in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

 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 a 1905, 3rd place bronze medal for a 3rd year student won by A. Gummery at the Ecole Municipale Bernard Palissy in the Ville de Paris for application des beaux-arts industrie.  Continue the tradition of distinction.

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This archival, hand-sewn journal/sketchbook is made from 100 gsm,antique white 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 white cotton, and its bookmark is blue goatskin.  Its spine is covered in goatskin from Rocky Mountain Leather Supply in Utah, and its boards are wrapped in paper that was hand-marbled by Renato Crepaldi in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

 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 a 1905, 3rd place bronze medal for a 3rd year student won by A. Gummery at the Ecole Municipale Bernard Palissy in the Ville de Paris for application des beaux-arts industrie.  Continue the tradition of distinction.

This archival, hand-sewn journal/sketchbook is made from 100 gsm,antique white 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 white cotton, and its bookmark is blue goatskin.  Its spine is covered in goatskin from Rocky Mountain Leather Supply in Utah, and its boards are wrapped in paper that was hand-marbled by Renato Crepaldi in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

 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 a 1905, 3rd place bronze medal for a 3rd year student won by A. Gummery at the Ecole Municipale Bernard Palissy in the Ville de Paris for application des beaux-arts industrie.  Continue the tradition of distinction.