Fuck Yeah, Book Arts!

Anonymous asked: I've always admired your icon but I don't recognise it, is it some sort of old or famous gold book or treasure?

The icon is in actual fact a gold frame enclosing a lock of hair by William Morris (one of my all-time favourite artists and book-designers). I first stumbled across the work whilst reading a book on the Arts and Crafts Movement some years ago, and without finding much information behind the image, mistook it for an old golden book. Although I later found out it wasn’t actually a book (right before I created this blog), I decided it still very much looked like the front cover of a precious book I would like to read and treasure. I just love the mystery behind that blond lock of hair, and couldn’t help imagining up a romantic story behind it :)