Antique Tea Box Leather Artist Scroll
I have a collection of antique boxes which has grown with my travels and places I have lived over the years. I recently moved to Thornton, a small village in West Yorkshire famed for being the birth place of the Bronte sisters. In the village there is the tiniest, lopsided antique shop where I found this beautiful old tea caddy, I am told it is victorian.
I have made a scroll to fit inside, covered with reclaimed navy blue leather bound with burnished hemp paper which has been traditionally used in Indian for centuries to paint Mughal miniatures on. This paper works beautifully with gouache and watercolours, but can also be used with most artistic media. The scroll is tied with hessian rope finished with a vintage wool camel sack tassel.
DETAILS
SCROLL SIZE
Rolled up : 7 x 10.5 cm [ 2.5 x 4 inches]
Fully unrolled : 7 x 34 cm [13.5 x 4 inches]Hand bound with 26 pages [52 sides] of hand torn burnished hemp paper with stained edges.
Covered with reclaimed navy blue leather with fabric remnants from a vintage Swati shawl.
Tied with hessian rope with vintage tassel detail.
Bookmark with beaded ends.
Decorative tie-dyed lokta paper endpaper.
BOX SIZE
H 12.5 x W 10.5 x D 10.5 cm [5x 4x 4 inches ]
USES
This truly luxe ledger shaped journal is kept encased in a copper and glass shadow box to display in your home, inspire and spark conversation, but most of all to be filled up with art, words, dried flowers or snippets of anything your heart desires. Although I made this journal with a painter in mind, it would make an equally beautiful wedding guest book or a journal for writing poetry, quotes or prayers.
