The delicate and intricate restoration process of a very old book. Watch this ASMR restoration video of a true artisan at work with decades of experience. Artisan: www.rooksbooks.com/
Another restoration that isn't a restoration, but a renovation. Restoration would be restoring it to it's original appearance. That said, I firmly believe that anything that puts a book back into readable condition is a good thing!
These comments are very interesting, even though I am not an expert, I do know the difference between a demonstration and a tutorial. Personally I loved this.
Those who make rude comments here, shame. This video allows you to witness the careful restoring of a very old book so that it can last another hundred years or more and you are only interested in bullying the whole process. You are missing the point of the informative information. It is very relaxing and I hope this craft never fades.
The amount of work involved was quite surprising. So many different steps in the process and so much glue! I do wonder what the thought was in picking that rather odd cover. A very interesting process even so.
Bookbinding --- at any level, any type of stich --- is super time consuming. I learned the basics in art school, but rarely actually make new books. Why? Because I can't decide which intensive route to go. Lol.
Hello I'm watching you from Tirana Albania 🇦🇱🇦🇱🇦🇱,I do the same work as you,I work in restaurtion of books since 1985,till now, want to thank you for sharing this video and for your time
Very interesting. Thank you. I can't say I'm enamoured with the covers, and if it were my volume I'd have preferred a simple plain look. But I imagine the customer / owner had the last word!
The binding and final look is entirely true to the era when the book was first published. If you visit any old European library, you will see row upon row of books in this style. Where do you think Disney got his his inspiration from? He just bastardised old European tales.
@@nrml76well, no, not really. This is a 100 year old book by the title, meaning early 20th, and the binding style is more 17th to 18th century. That said the pages looked more mid 19th than early 20th.
Years of skill, thats what makes them so good, it looked effortless quite the opposite, so many years of hard work to get to that level of skill and the way they make its look so easy is a testament to this mans skills, do not know why people have to be so crytical is beyond me, I think it looks lovely and unique, thank you for sharing.
Not sure I liked the sculptured edges or the tear effect on the faces but the quality of the workmanship cannot be denied. One thing that stood out for me was the "wastage" of the covering leather - amateurs like me would save every inch, a professional doesn't have to bother!
So do I, still want to trace the book title though... I am curious what he was working on. The patient should not be forgotten when applying the treatment.
I always loved bookbinding, I tried it a couple times making small notebooks for myself, if I had more materials I would love to be able to master this ability like this professional!! I love his work, he makes the whole process with such grace and expertise he makes it look so easy
No doubt in my mind that this is a skilled craftsman judging by the skills and special tools he has at his disposal, which leads me to believe that this is not a valuable book and that the customer dictated the end result and perhaps it was intendet to look like something from a Harry P. movie.....but we will never really know.
Beautifully done! And to think books from the 1910's and early 1920's are over 100 years old! That leaves so many books to require such talents and work :)
GREAT JOB, I Wished this video was around in the 80's when I tried to restore a Stephen King paperback ( well, at least the Elmer's Glue that I used is still holding up!!! )
18:34. there are better ways to case leather. It should be moistened and then left overnight in a poly bag then brought out and left until the surface appears dry. Then apply the embossing and leave to dry completely. That way you get a far crisper result. It just takes a bit of planning. (Leatherworker of nearly 40 years)
There's always someone who will critcise from an armchair, and anyone can buy an expensive car and put it on the drive to impress the neighbours. Not for me - only skills and abilities that are beyond my experience impress me. My interests are related to wood, but there are many facets within that medium that are beyond my meagre skills such as fine marquetry and inlaying. Those are the kind of skills that impress me. Respect to this craftsman.
I was expecting the work would include some working on the damaged page edges. I guess that would either be very difficult or impossible but it does detract a bit from the fresh neat rebinding to see the ratty page edges.
Im in awe of the skill shown by the bookbinder 😮 I have one question though, is the voice over done by an AI? I find the sentence structure and tones of the voice to be a bit unsettling at times, like an AI would do😅
Is it really restoration when the restorer takes artistic liberties? Wouldn’t a true restoration process attempt to make the object as close to the original as possible?
Yes, but 1. This is an archival restoration that is supposed to be reversible as mentioned near the beginning, and 2. If you could please share with us what the original binding looked like - thanks in advance
@@bunkenator I think he or she wouldn't be able to tell. In the past books were sold in raw sheets and every owner let them bind according to his personal taste. The same book could have many different bindings and very different books in one private or public library could have the same binding.
There was no original, or at least not one shown in this video. Only a text block without a binding. (And it is indeed entirely possible that it was never properly bound. I am restoring a dictionary from 1821 - as practice rather than for any real reason - and that was clearly a loose text block that someone just glued a few pieces of scrap cardboard to (not even as big as the book block itself) rather than an actual book. And also the spine mostly and rear board was entirely missing. So yeah, after I restore the text block I will be making my own binding for it, in the style of early 19th C Dutch books, but I’m not gonna spend the world on it in time or money and I’m certainly not keeping the “original look”.)
Was expecting an actual restoration... one that would see those moldy and brown foxing stained pages cleaned and lain flat. The binding appears nicely done but much can be said for the choice of cover and board edge treatment but I suppose that was all up to the customer. Really should update the video description to be more accurate to the job done.
I made it 6 min in but could not finish watching due to the overly quick cuts in the edit. It's incredibly frustrating that not one operation was showed to completion. The dude starts a stitch - suddenly he's somewhere completely different on the spine. Just let at least one task be completed in each sequence - no, we don't need to see every single stitch or whatever realtime, but seeing none completed at all is just confusing as well as frustrating.
I'll be honest, the end result looks fukken trash - It looks like something out of a low-rent wizard movie, and has no absolutely no resemblance to period book binding at all... I happen to collect antique books, and this is NOT a 'restoration', this is 'adulteration'. That would have been very expensive to restore, but it's now worthless to both a collector and in any historical sense. Not because it's been re-bound, but because it's been re-bound in some kind of caricature fantasy BS style. So sad to watch a perfectly saveable book destroyed like this.
