Diamond Jubilee 2012

For the past year the group has been working on a book to give to the Queen to commemorate her Diamond Jubilee with class members past and present designing & producing individual pages. These are the pages before they have been bound into book form.   The pages have been guilded using a variety of techniques employing shell gold, gold leaf, gold gouache and gold ink. The silk for the cover has been machine embroidered and beaded by a class member. Annie is going to make a padded cover using the embroidered silk and she will bind the book. Another member of the class will make a box to keep the book in.    These photographs represent hundreds of hours of work.

Silk cover

The inspiration for this page came from the flowers embroidered on the coronation gown.

This was sung at the coronation.

The edges of the page have been slit and ribbon threaded through.

A bit of bling!

The Yale of Beaufort - one of the Queen's Beasts.

Made in Japan.