This is a hand-sewn journal or sketchbook. The covers are from a pad of cool drawings that I received as a gift from a museum in Amsterdam. It is sewn in the coptic stitch with red linen thread. The book opens completely flat. Inside end papers are blue. 112 blank pages of Strathmore drawing paper are inside. SIZE is 8" tall by 7" wide. Nic size for either journaling or drawing.