Captain's Fortune
Safety for sailors, or plunder for pirates;
Sovereignty over seas for who bears the abysm.
Inspired by the Golden Age of Piracy, this grimoire is meant to walk the deck of some warship, hanging at the belt of a fierce captain.
Its pages are of cotton rag paper, bound in leather and sheltered in a hull of wood.
The cover is intertwined in cords, reinforced by rivets and nails.
A sturdy rope is anchored to the back cover through two heavy buckles, and locks the book by circling the fore edge and looping around a hardened leather toggle on the front cover.
Finally, its spine secures two robust buckles, to firmly hook it to a belt.
The book features 160 pages (80 leaves, 40 sheets) of 150g/m² cotton rag paper in A5 format.
It is made of calf and sheep leather, and black locust wood.
Fixations and joints are of brass rivets and buckles, iron nails, linen thread and sisal rope.
It measures 19 x 23 x 10cm (Width x Height x Thickness), including the extra thickness and width of the rope looping around the closed book.
Limitation
Due to the combination of the rope knot, the toggle, buckles, and the thick leather strip wrapped around the spine, the book can hardly lay open and flat.
It can be maintained in place by hand for writing or drawing, but will tend to close when released.
This flaw makes it uncomfortable to write on even pages (ie, when the page is on the left side, resting atop the front cover).
