Elephants, Bling and Suicide Snot

This term we have been looking at lots of different bindings. We have had various presentations on bindings including seeing an Ethiopian book bound in elephant skin and some seriously bling Byzantine-style bindings in silver, gold and semi-precious jewels. We all had our own bit of broken calf binding which we treated with Marney’s Conservation Leather Dressing aka Cyanide Snot.