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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 lie open easily at any page.
The book’s endbands and bookmark are goatskin. Its boards are wrapped in paper that was hand-marbled by Jemma Lewis in Wiltshire, England, and its spine is covered in Alran French goatskin that was processed at Rocky Mountain Leather Supply in Sandy, Utah.
Treasure binding began with monks in the 6th Century who would encrust volumes with jewels to demonstrate their worth to a largely illiterate populace. 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 an 1851 French souvenir of the coup d’etat that installed Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte as the dictator/president of France, the beginning of the Second French Empire under Napoleon III. It’s obverse shows the likeness of the Hotel de Ville in Paris with the Latin slogan “Dies Festus Actus, Non Avg MDCCCLI,” or “Holiday Events, Strike of 1951.”
On the face of the coin are a pair of cherubs, with the slogan “Artisbvsq popviorvm omnivm civitas lutetia Parisiorvm,” or, “The Art of the People, the City of Life, the life of the Parisians.” Coup, Revolution, New Day; it was the start of something momentous.
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 lie open easily at any page.
The book’s endbands and bookmark are goatskin. Its boards are wrapped in paper that was hand-marbled by Jemma Lewis in Wiltshire, England, and its spine is covered in Alran French goatskin that was processed at Rocky Mountain Leather Supply in Sandy, Utah.
Treasure binding began with monks in the 6th Century who would encrust volumes with jewels to demonstrate their worth to a largely illiterate populace. 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 an 1851 French souvenir of the coup d’etat that installed Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte as the dictator/president of France, the beginning of the Second French Empire under Napoleon III. It’s obverse shows the likeness of the Hotel de Ville in Paris with the Latin slogan “Dies Festus Actus, Non Avg MDCCCLI,” or “Holiday Events, Strike of 1951.”
On the face of the coin are a pair of cherubs, with the slogan “Artisbvsq popviorvm omnivm civitas lutetia Parisiorvm,” or, “The Art of the People, the City of Life, the life of the Parisians.” Coup, Revolution, New Day; it was the start of something momentous.
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 lie open easily at any page.
The book’s endbands and bookmark are goatskin. Its boards are wrapped in paper that was hand-marbled by Jemma Lewis in Wiltshire, England, and its spine is covered in Alran French goatskin that was processed at Rocky Mountain Leather Supply in Sandy, Utah.
Treasure binding began with monks in the 6th Century who would encrust volumes with jewels to demonstrate their worth to a largely illiterate populace. 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 an 1851 French souvenir of the coup d’etat that installed Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte as the dictator/president of France, the beginning of the Second French Empire under Napoleon III. It’s obverse shows the likeness of the Hotel de Ville in Paris with the Latin slogan “Dies Festus Actus, Non Avg MDCCCLI,” or “Holiday Events, Strike of 1951.”
On the face of the coin are a pair of cherubs, with the slogan “Artisbvsq popviorvm omnivm civitas lutetia Parisiorvm,” or, “The Art of the People, the City of Life, the life of the Parisians.” Coup, Revolution, New Day; it was the start of something momentous.