Brown Pocket Leather Journal with Heart

Description

In medieval times, the Book of Heart was one of the most popular and influential metaphors. The meaning was that the person's heart is like a book containing pages of thoughts, feelings, knowledge and memories. Lovers' hearts are opened to each other and can therefore be read easily. Pious people prayed to Christ asking him to write divine commandments and revelations on the pages of their hearts. Medieval poets were the ones penning up expressions like "a stolen, broken or a wounded heart" as well as drawing of a symmetrically shaped red heart which became popular some 500 years ago. The tradition to send greeting cards with heart-decorations is also like sending someone your Book of Heart. *The Book of Heart makes a most beautiful gift! Leather The covers of this book are made from vegetable-tanned calf leather. The leather is produced using time-honored tanning methods. The vegetable tanning process involves the use of natural tannin found in tree bark. Tannin is also the root for the world "tanning". We hand dye the leather for the covers of each book separately with water-based, non-toxic dyes. Thus, each book is one-of-a-kind, since each piece of leather reacts differently to the dye pigment. Almost all the books that you see on our website have been dyed with three to four different dyes in order to achieve a certain shade or effect. We finish the process by coating the leather with a water-based lacquer of natural beeswax and oils prepared according to our own "recipe". The coated leather is then dried and hand polished. The extraordinary result is something you have never seen before and something large leather factories cannot duplicate.  Paper In this book we use Hahnemuhle Artist paper called Ingres. It is a mould-made paper. . The same type we use in most of our journals, but with color closer to white. Named after the famous French painter Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres (1780-1867). This paper is ideal for pencil, crayon, pastel, red