Japan
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 and bookmark are goatskin. Its boards are wrapped in a 1960 map of Japan, and the book is half-cloth in Brillianta book cloth from the Netherlands.
The talisman in this book is a 1948, 5 yen coin depicting a rice plant, a symbol of post-war reconstruction and resilience.
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 and bookmark are goatskin. Its boards are wrapped in a 1960 map of Japan, and the book is half-cloth in Brillianta book cloth from the Netherlands.
The talisman in this book is a 1948, 5 yen coin depicting a rice plant, a symbol of post-war reconstruction and resilience.
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 and bookmark are goatskin. Its boards are wrapped in a 1960 map of Japan, and the book is half-cloth in Brillianta book cloth from the Netherlands.
The talisman in this book is a 1948, 5 yen coin depicting a rice plant, a symbol of post-war reconstruction and resilience.