Laurels
This archival journal/sketchbook is made from 85 gsm Arches 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 and bookmark are goatskin. The spine is covered in Dubletta book cloth from the Netherlands, and its boards are wrapped washi paper that was hand silk-screened in Japan in a factory where kimono silks are printed.
The talisman in this book is a late 18th Century medal featuring the Goddess Pallas Athena extending her laurel wreath. Its obverse reads: “Valeo (Latin for “I am strong.”), Mme Hautbout.” Madame Hautbout, whoever you were, congratulations; the owner of this book is a strong person too.
This archival journal/sketchbook is made from 85 gsm Arches 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 and bookmark are goatskin. The spine is covered in Dubletta book cloth from the Netherlands, and its boards are wrapped washi paper that was hand silk-screened in Japan in a factory where kimono silks are printed.
The talisman in this book is a late 18th Century medal featuring the Goddess Pallas Athena extending her laurel wreath. Its obverse reads: “Valeo (Latin for “I am strong.”), Mme Hautbout.” Madame Hautbout, whoever you were, congratulations; the owner of this book is a strong person too.
This archival journal/sketchbook is made from 85 gsm Arches 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 and bookmark are goatskin. The spine is covered in Dubletta book cloth from the Netherlands, and its boards are wrapped washi paper that was hand silk-screened in Japan in a factory where kimono silks are printed.
The talisman in this book is a late 18th Century medal featuring the Goddess Pallas Athena extending her laurel wreath. Its obverse reads: “Valeo (Latin for “I am strong.”), Mme Hautbout.” Madame Hautbout, whoever you were, congratulations; the owner of this book is a strong person too.