“Roses & linen” junk journal flip-through: Part 2/2
Available in my Etsy shop:
All the profit will go to help Ukraine.
Useful links mentioned in my flip-through (both parts):
– Learning the needle painting embroidery technique:
– Tutorial on coffee dyeing lace paper:
– Tutorial on avocado dyeing:
– Tutorial on napkin decoupaging:
This journal has a soft (but robust) textile cover made from a 19th-century linen tablecloth with an unfinished roses’ embroidery and embellished with a tender rose bud, which I have hand-embroidered in the needle-painting technique.
Cover: H – 23 cm; L – 17 cm; spine – 7 cm large.
5 signatures and over 120 pages (both sides counted).
Weight: about 1,100 g.
The journal contains extracts from the following antique French ledgers: two wine merchants’ ledgers – of 1850s and 1910s; a 1920s’ shop ledger; an 1899-1900s’ notary’s ledger; an 1880s’ tailor’s ledger; and a commercial ledger from 1910s.
Other paper: 19th-century French wallpaper, handmade paper with rose petals, coffee-stained paper.
The journal is embellished with more than 10 varieties of fabrics including from an antique linen night gown, and over 40 varieties of antique and vintage laces and embroideries, as well as some old glass and metal buttons. It also contains an unfinished handmade lace on its pattern from the 19th century.
In addition, the journal contains cut-outs and extracts from:
– the 1888 diary “Entrepôt d’Ivry”;
– “Gradus ad parnassum” (Dictionnaire poétique latin-français) – Poetic Latin-French Dictionary (1865);
– “Guide de l’étranger à Paris et ses environs” (“Paris Guide for Foreigners”) (offered by the Paris Grand-Hotel administration to a certain Mr Morgan in 1877);
– 2 double pages from the “Copies des lettres » (letterbook) of a Paris fabrics merchant for 1892;
– “Encyclopédie des ouvrages de dames” by Thérèse de Dillmont (early 20th century);
– the 1904 diary of the « Maison du Petit St. Thomas » department store;
– the “Grands magasins de Louvre” diary for 1913 handwritten in December 1915;
– the 1910 catalogue of the department store “Au Louvre”;
– the magazine “Le Théâtre” N°263 of 01/12/1909 (including the large engraving enclosed, which can be framed);
– the magazine “Journal des ouvrages des dames” No. 487 for October 1928;
– the magazine “La femme chez elle” for 01/11/1926;
– the magazine “Femina” for 15/09/1910;
– two rhinestone bow embellishments from 1920s;
– the 1932 diary “Grands magasins du Printemps”;
– a page with addresses of tailors in Paris from of the 1947-1948 business address and telephone directory of France;
– the book “Paris Mythique: 100 Photos de Légende” (“Mythical Paris: 100 legendary photos”) (Éditeur Parigramme, 2013);
– the books “Romantic Roses by Pierre-Joseph Redouté” (TASCHEN, 2002) and “Pierre-Joseph Redouté. The book of flowers” (TASCHEN, 2017);
– the book « Roses – L’histoire de la fleur la plus admirée à travers 40 rosiers majeurs, avec un luxe de détails et de données et 40 superbes gravures» (Elliott Brent, HEREDIUM, 2017), and
– the book “Pre-Raphaelite drawing” by Colin Cruise published in 2019.
Furthermore, the ephemera in the journal includes:
– an invoice of a French dressmaking company for 1934;
– a bill of exchange from 1964;
– a tax relief certificate for 1912;
– a 1926 bearer share;
– a blank bank cheque of 1930s;
– 5 antique and vintage photos;
– 2 vintage menus;
– 1 chromolithographic trade card;
– 10 antique and vintage post cards;
– 6 antique and vintage envelopes;
– a 19th century lace template card;
– a handwritten loan receipt for 1925;
– 2 deposit slips by SNCF (the French railways company) from 1956;
– 2 notarised papers from 1810 and 1819;
– 1 vintage linen thread card;
– a play programme from 1929;
– as well as some vintage labels (fabric, liqueur, toothpaste and vinegar).
All the paper clips are vintage French-made.
Also, among the decorative elements you will find:
– 4 authentic French wine and champagne labels;
– 2 traditionally fabricated scrap pictures by Ernst Freihoff (made in Germany);
– high-quality gift-wrapping papers;
– scrapbooking paper (mainly from the “L’Air du temps” vintage collection by “Toga”, but also “Floral Couture” by “DCWV”);
– decoupaged paper napkins;
– stamping;
– pressed roses.