Can you pick out the Walkie Talkie building?
That’s The Shard over my left shoulder.
We’re on our way to the Fashion and Textile Museum in South London but first we stopped off for a coffe and a pastry.
You know you’re not in St. Louis any more when you spy a London double decker through the coffee shop window.
This shop was also a roaster and they had this cool mechanical tube system for getting beans from the roaster to the retail purchase area.
The building is quite something. At the FTM this quarter the exhibit is Weavers of the Clouds - Peruvian textiles. We weren’t sure this would really click for us but it turned out to be fabulous. The exhibit took three years to put together and the Peruvian curators had to come to London to dress the manequins because the Londoners had no clue.
Peruvians, women and men, dress in many layers of highly decorated textiles. This woman is spinning yarn, possibly from a llama.
These girls layers, colors, decorations, hats and braids are typical of Peruvian teens.
Afternoon
Leaving FTM we headed for Borough Market, thinking we’d have lunch there. Wrong!
Th crowd was so thick we decided to just walk through and on to our next stop, the Tate Modern.
Lunch was at the Asian Fusion restaurant Wagamama. It’s a chain but it’s good and it was right across the road from the museum.
The exhibit at the Modern was works by Natalia Goncharova, a leader of the Russian avantgarde in the early 20th century.
Boy with Rooster. Folksy and colorful.
At the end of the day, we logged 6.8 miles.
