Paper Leather Journal with Plant Mandala

Paper Leather Journal with Plant Mandala

• Size approx. 127 x 178 x 30mm     
• Weight approx. 357 g

This Vintage Journal contains 200 pages (Counting Both Sides) made of of handmade Parchment Paper. The paper is Acid-free as it is made up of virgin cotton. You can write on this unlined paper with a biro or pencil and draw with coloured pencils and acrylic paints. Ink pens, watercolours etc. may bleed on this paper.  

Various folk cultures and traditions assign symbolic meanings to plants. Although these are no longer commonly understood by populations that are increasingly divorced from their old rural traditions, some survive. In addition, these meanings are alluded to in older pictures, songs and writings.     

A mandala is a geometric configuration of symbols. In various spiritual traditions, mandalas may be employed for focusing attention of practitioners and adepts, as a spiritual guidance tool, for establishing a sacred space and as an aid to meditation and trance induction. In the Eastern religions of Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism and Shintoism it is used as a map representing deities, or especially in the case of Shintoism, paradises, kami or actual shrines. A mandala generally represents the spiritual journey, starting from outside to the inner core, through layers.