Designer Bookbinders Exhibition

I went up to London yesterday (Tuesday) to visit the Designer Bookbinders annual exhibition in  St Bride's Foundation off Fleet Street. Stunning but not easy to photograph because everything was behind glass.

The under layer is vellum painted with watercolours and the red leather on  top has been cut away.

 

In this one, the leather has been coloured and painted.



The orangey coloured stuff is a painted underlayer of leather. There were 59 bindings and 40% of them were from the USA. Quite amazing. I feel I should go away and not mention my bookbinding ever again.

I walked back to Waterloo Station over Blackfriars bridge with life bustling up and down the river. Note the London eye.

In the afternoon we walked round to the Savile Gardens - about 45 minutes and here we are having a posh tea in the café. Shown are Ruth, my daughter, and her daughter, Charlotte, who has just got a good degree from Reading University and is going to work for BP in September. We are all very proud of her. Note the scones with clotted cream and jam. None of us wanted any supper.