Gymnastique
This journal/sketchbook is made from 120 gsm Arches hand-laid, all cotton rag paper from France. It is sewn with Irish linen in the linked stitch pattern that was developed by the ancient Copts. 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 Dubletta cloth from the Netherlands, and its boards are wrapped in paper that was hand silk-screened in Japan, in a factory where kimono silks are decorated.
The talisman in this book is a 1936 French women’s gymnastics medal. Its obverse reads: “XVIIme Fête Federale/ Nationale et Internationale/ de/ Gymnastique Feminine/ Evian-Les Bains/ 1936.” Celebrate more than a century of women’s strength!
This journal/sketchbook is made from 120 gsm Arches hand-laid, all cotton rag paper from France. It is sewn with Irish linen in the linked stitch pattern that was developed by the ancient Copts. 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 Dubletta cloth from the Netherlands, and its boards are wrapped in paper that was hand silk-screened in Japan, in a factory where kimono silks are decorated.
The talisman in this book is a 1936 French women’s gymnastics medal. Its obverse reads: “XVIIme Fête Federale/ Nationale et Internationale/ de/ Gymnastique Feminine/ Evian-Les Bains/ 1936.” Celebrate more than a century of women’s strength!
This journal/sketchbook is made from 120 gsm Arches hand-laid, all cotton rag paper from France. It is sewn with Irish linen in the linked stitch pattern that was developed by the ancient Copts. 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 Dubletta cloth from the Netherlands, and its boards are wrapped in paper that was hand silk-screened in Japan, in a factory where kimono silks are decorated.
The talisman in this book is a 1936 French women’s gymnastics medal. Its obverse reads: “XVIIme Fête Federale/ Nationale et Internationale/ de/ Gymnastique Feminine/ Evian-Les Bains/ 1936.” Celebrate more than a century of women’s strength!