Forbidden City
This archival journal/sketchbook is made from 120 gsm Arches (“wet media”) hand-laid, all cotton rag paper from France. It is sewn with Irish linen thread in the linked stitch pattern that was developed by the ancient Copts and discovered in Nag Hammadi, Egypt in 1945. This stitch allows the book to lay open at any page.
Its endbands are blue and white cotton, and its bookmark is goatskin. The spine is covered in Belgian book cloth, and its boards are wrapped in paper that was hand silk-screened in Japan in a factory where kimono silks are printed.
The talisman in this book is a commemorative coin minted by the Monnaie de Paris in celebration of the 600th anniversary of China’s Forbidden City. Eighty thousand visitors enter the Forbidden City every day during the high tourist season.
This archival journal/sketchbook is made from 120 gsm Arches (“wet media”) hand-laid, all cotton rag paper from France. It is sewn with Irish linen thread in the linked stitch pattern that was developed by the ancient Copts and discovered in Nag Hammadi, Egypt in 1945. This stitch allows the book to lay open at any page.
Its endbands are blue and white cotton, and its bookmark is goatskin. The spine is covered in Belgian book cloth, and its boards are wrapped in paper that was hand silk-screened in Japan in a factory where kimono silks are printed.
The talisman in this book is a commemorative coin minted by the Monnaie de Paris in celebration of the 600th anniversary of China’s Forbidden City. Eighty thousand visitors enter the Forbidden City every day during the high tourist season.
This archival journal/sketchbook is made from 120 gsm Arches (“wet media”) hand-laid, all cotton rag paper from France. It is sewn with Irish linen thread in the linked stitch pattern that was developed by the ancient Copts and discovered in Nag Hammadi, Egypt in 1945. This stitch allows the book to lay open at any page.
Its endbands are blue and white cotton, and its bookmark is goatskin. The spine is covered in Belgian book cloth, and its boards are wrapped in paper that was hand silk-screened in Japan in a factory where kimono silks are printed.
The talisman in this book is a commemorative coin minted by the Monnaie de Paris in celebration of the 600th anniversary of China’s Forbidden City. Eighty thousand visitors enter the Forbidden City every day during the high tourist season.