Comments on: At the Wyvern Bindery https://spitalfieldslife.com/2011/04/14/at-the-wyvern-bindery/ In the midst of life I woke to find myself living in an old house beside Brick Lane in the East End of London Wed, 19 Mar 2014 09:43:07 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: Roger Tiller https://spitalfieldslife.com/2011/04/14/at-the-wyvern-bindery/#comment-260684 Wed, 19 Mar 2014 09:43:07 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=28834#comment-260684 Fantastic Place, visit there and you will be amazed, so much to see.

]]> By: isabel savage https://spitalfieldslife.com/2011/04/14/at-the-wyvern-bindery/#comment-66861 Sat, 29 Sep 2012 19:29:26 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=28834#comment-66861 I have just had a phone call from Germany from my friends Maria & Marinus Van AAlst to try and trace a Margaret Winstanley who they have known for 48 years and she had a son Mark Winstanley who had a bookshop on London. they would like to know if Margaret is well can you be of help?

]]> By: Ana https://spitalfieldslife.com/2011/04/14/at-the-wyvern-bindery/#comment-57757 Mon, 30 Jul 2012 12:50:42 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=28834#comment-57757 What beauty in the work ethic and in the works themselves.

To have the honour to be the one who’ll repair something from the 6th century, and for it to look like that even after all this time (just look at the vividness of colours!) – amazing!

I always shudder at the mention of Eric Gill, though.

]]> By: Klaus von Mirbach https://spitalfieldslife.com/2011/04/14/at-the-wyvern-bindery/#comment-29647 Sat, 05 Nov 2011 19:58:41 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=28834#comment-29647 The Wyvern Bindery is great, wonderful pics, thank you, this post , this blog is awesome

]]> By: Omo Okolo https://spitalfieldslife.com/2011/04/14/at-the-wyvern-bindery/#comment-28048 Tue, 11 Oct 2011 17:56:30 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=28834#comment-28048 This post made me smile….thank you so much for featuring the Wyvern Bindery! Mark and his colleagues are really very sweet people with awesome design and bookbinding skills!

]]> By: Andrew https://spitalfieldslife.com/2011/04/14/at-the-wyvern-bindery/#comment-19659 Sun, 12 Jun 2011 21:34:39 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=28834#comment-19659 As a life long book collector, I am somewhat concerned about the sixth century Ethiopian manuscript. No doubt this bindery is one of the more admirable, useful and skilled crafts houses in London today, a place I would be happy to bring an 18th century book for restoration.

However an early mss of this period should probably be assessed not only by a bookbinder, but by a scholar of paleography, who could contribute expertise in its conservation. Perhaps this was done prior to the binder’s intervention.

Thank you for featuring this reminder of our current debt to the traditional crafts, especially deep for those of us who love old things.

]]> By: Jonathon Green https://spitalfieldslife.com/2011/04/14/at-the-wyvern-bindery/#comment-12142 Sun, 17 Apr 2011 10:14:36 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=28834#comment-12142 My near neighbours and wonderfully skilled preservers of many of my much-loved but hitherto battered volumes. Every publisher who constantly proclaims how much they ‘care about books’, while rushing ever more enthusiastically to toss more of them onto the digital pyre, should come to this place and see what the phrase actually means.

]]> By: jane osullivan https://spitalfieldslife.com/2011/04/14/at-the-wyvern-bindery/#comment-12080 Sat, 16 Apr 2011 21:28:57 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=28834#comment-12080 a hive of busy binders …a lovely post gentle author 🙂

]]> By: jeannette https://spitalfieldslife.com/2011/04/14/at-the-wyvern-bindery/#comment-11925 Fri, 15 Apr 2011 05:09:18 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=28834#comment-11925 lovely to see the young people working at this, and so many people well-employed. lovely pix of hands and fingertips working. ethiopian treasure — wow. give them all our regards and thank them just for keeping the light on.

]]> By: Gary https://spitalfieldslife.com/2011/04/14/at-the-wyvern-bindery/#comment-11887 Thu, 14 Apr 2011 22:11:44 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=28834#comment-11887 Fantastic to see the skills and equipment there.
Customers often ask me if I know a good bookbinder – I do now!
Gary

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