Élève

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This archival, hand-sewn journal/sketchbook is made from 100 gsm, white Hahnemühle Ingres mouldmade paper from Dassel, Germany, made on the same site since 1584.  It is sewn with Irish linen thread in the linked stitch pattern that was developed by the ancient Copts.  This stitch allows the book to lay open easily at any page.

 The book’s endbands are black and white cotton, and its bookmark is goatskin.  Its boards are wrapped paper that was hand-marbled by modern master Katherine Brett at Payhembury Papers in Migdale, Southerland, Scotland, and its spine is covered in Alran French goatskin that was processed at Rocky Mountain Leather Supply in Utah.

The talisman in this book is an 1884 student art prize in drawing from Paris.  Its obverse reads: “Ville de Paris, Ensignement du Dessin IVe Arrondi, Classe ‘Adultes, M. Morice Professor, Prix a L’Élève, L. Mangin, 1884.”

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This archival, hand-sewn journal/sketchbook is made from 100 gsm, white Hahnemühle Ingres mouldmade paper from Dassel, Germany, made on the same site since 1584.  It is sewn with Irish linen thread in the linked stitch pattern that was developed by the ancient Copts.  This stitch allows the book to lay open easily at any page.

 The book’s endbands are black and white cotton, and its bookmark is goatskin.  Its boards are wrapped paper that was hand-marbled by modern master Katherine Brett at Payhembury Papers in Migdale, Southerland, Scotland, and its spine is covered in Alran French goatskin that was processed at Rocky Mountain Leather Supply in Utah.

The talisman in this book is an 1884 student art prize in drawing from Paris.  Its obverse reads: “Ville de Paris, Ensignement du Dessin IVe Arrondi, Classe ‘Adultes, M. Morice Professor, Prix a L’Élève, L. Mangin, 1884.”

This archival, hand-sewn journal/sketchbook is made from 100 gsm, white Hahnemühle Ingres mouldmade paper from Dassel, Germany, made on the same site since 1584.  It is sewn with Irish linen thread in the linked stitch pattern that was developed by the ancient Copts.  This stitch allows the book to lay open easily at any page.

 The book’s endbands are black and white cotton, and its bookmark is goatskin.  Its boards are wrapped paper that was hand-marbled by modern master Katherine Brett at Payhembury Papers in Migdale, Southerland, Scotland, and its spine is covered in Alran French goatskin that was processed at Rocky Mountain Leather Supply in Utah.

The talisman in this book is an 1884 student art prize in drawing from Paris.  Its obverse reads: “Ville de Paris, Ensignement du Dessin IVe Arrondi, Classe ‘Adultes, M. Morice Professor, Prix a L’Élève, L. Mangin, 1884.”