Nineteen Ten
This archival, hand-sewn journal/sketchbook is made from 100 gsm, rose 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 brown and yellow cotton, and its bookmark is calfskin. The book is half-clothed in Dubletta from the Netherlands, and its boards are wrapped in paper that was hand-marbled by Katherine Brett at Payhembury in Cambridge, England.
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 1910 British penny whose obverse depicts a helmeted Britannia with a trident and shield. The face of the coin shows King Edward the VII who waited 60 years for the throne that was held by his mother Queen Victoria. His reign was brief, from 1901-1910. As Gertrude Stein wrote in Wars I Have Seen, “it is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.”
This book is roughly 6.5 x 10” with more than 150 blank pages.
This archival, hand-sewn journal/sketchbook is made from 100 gsm, rose 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 brown and yellow cotton, and its bookmark is calfskin. The book is half-clothed in Dubletta from the Netherlands, and its boards are wrapped in paper that was hand-marbled by Katherine Brett at Payhembury in Cambridge, England.
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 1910 British penny whose obverse depicts a helmeted Britannia with a trident and shield. The face of the coin shows King Edward the VII who waited 60 years for the throne that was held by his mother Queen Victoria. His reign was brief, from 1901-1910. As Gertrude Stein wrote in Wars I Have Seen, “it is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.”
This book is roughly 6.5 x 10” with more than 150 blank pages.
This archival, hand-sewn journal/sketchbook is made from 100 gsm, rose 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 brown and yellow cotton, and its bookmark is calfskin. The book is half-clothed in Dubletta from the Netherlands, and its boards are wrapped in paper that was hand-marbled by Katherine Brett at Payhembury in Cambridge, England.
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 1910 British penny whose obverse depicts a helmeted Britannia with a trident and shield. The face of the coin shows King Edward the VII who waited 60 years for the throne that was held by his mother Queen Victoria. His reign was brief, from 1901-1910. As Gertrude Stein wrote in Wars I Have Seen, “it is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.”
This book is roughly 6.5 x 10” with more than 150 blank pages.