OLeary Cow
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 are pigskin, and its bookmark is goatskin. The spine is covered in Belgian book cloth, 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 1971 coin commemorating the one hundredth anniversary of the Great Chicago Fire, which was apocryphally blamed upon a Mrs. O’Leary’s cow who was said to have kicked over a lantern in her barn. The fire burned for three days, and about 300 people lost their lives while another 100,000 lost their homes. The Chicago Water Tower is one of the few surviving structures from that event, which lead to increased fire safety in building codes.
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 are pigskin, and its bookmark is goatskin. The spine is covered in Belgian book cloth, 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 1971 coin commemorating the one hundredth anniversary of the Great Chicago Fire, which was apocryphally blamed upon a Mrs. O’Leary’s cow who was said to have kicked over a lantern in her barn. The fire burned for three days, and about 300 people lost their lives while another 100,000 lost their homes. The Chicago Water Tower is one of the few surviving structures from that event, which lead to increased fire safety in building codes.
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 are pigskin, and its bookmark is goatskin. The spine is covered in Belgian book cloth, 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 1971 coin commemorating the one hundredth anniversary of the Great Chicago Fire, which was apocryphally blamed upon a Mrs. O’Leary’s cow who was said to have kicked over a lantern in her barn. The fire burned for three days, and about 300 people lost their lives while another 100,000 lost their homes. The Chicago Water Tower is one of the few surviving structures from that event, which lead to increased fire safety in building codes.