Harbinger of Colour, Cyanotype Journal

One-of-a-kind full cloth binding covered with linen hand dyed with indigo and block printed with gold trees. The cover is embellished with a metal bookplate which has a miniature booklet to fill with something special. Bound with raw hemp paper suitable for calligraphy, fountain pens, gouache and light watercolour.

I love adding hidden words to the inner book spine, I like to believe it gives a certain energy to the journals that leave the Lotus Blu Bindery, a hope that they will set the tone for whatever they are to be filled with; my hope for this journal is that it will be a Harbinger of colour in the life of whomever it finds a home with. Scribed and hidden upon the spine before it was covered up are the following words by Rabindranath Tagore,

‘‘May the clouds that float into my life no longer usher storms,

but come instead to add colour to my sunset sky.”