Linseed Journal is described by the publisher, award-winning writer/photographer Louise Long, as ‘a journal of cultural entanglement’ and an ‘almanac of seasonal graft, and a larder of local lore.’
Each issue of this new and imposing large format journal is themed around an organic material with enduring cultural significance. Virtually uncategorisable, its depth and erudition is not easily apparent with a mere flick-through. Linseed demands that you pick it up, sit down with it, and start reading it from the beginning. So far we've voyaged with the apple and now the olive, their heritage traced through time, across continents and through art, science and horticulture to deliver not only enchantment but a feeling of real enrichment, of new wisdoms gained.
Expensive, sure, but utterly exquisite. Beautifully and originally designed by Émilie Loiseleur, we think there's little else like Linseed and we're sure you'll agree.
Here's the publisher's description for Volume 2, The Olive:
'Across five chapters, we wend through market stalls in Izmir, punt amongst the reeds of Iraq’s southern marshlands, climb the precipitous hillsides of the West Bank, and emerge into the light of Italy’s Victorian-era riviera.
Elsewhere, we venture for inspiration and nourishment: striking out with a foraging-map into the hinterlands of Marseille, or tracing New York City’s original recipe for olive oil gelato.
Photographer Emma Hardy offers a bittersweet lament to the diseased olive trees of Puglia, artist Dessy Baeva conjures the botanical wisdom of Kapka Kassabova, steeped in the folklore of their native Bulgaria, and Sicily-based cook Letitia Clark pens a love note to harvests past and present.
Soon we circle home to Edinburgh – finding comfort in the pebble-spirals of Jim Ede – before settling on the harbour side of Newlyn, on a salty-aired summer’s eve.'
