How a Leatherbound Book is Made | Dragonsteel 

This is EXACTLY the kind of content I adore. Thank you to the Dragonsteel team for making this incredible behind the scenes video!

Bindtech's owner saying how Brandon Sanderon's Dragonsteel helped the workers keep their jobs was so precious. There was something completely pure about how much respect he gives for the decades of support Brandon and his team have given.

Wow I knew it was an involved process to make, but showing the sheer amount of specialty machines required is really impressive.

It means a hell of a lot to see you working with smaller businesses. It makes the product even more special to know that the books in such good hands.

Love the leatherbounds. SHOW US THE STAINED GLASS IN THE BACKGROUND IN FOCUS THO!!!

Sanderson, you sir. I’m genuinely happy for you, you are changing the industry in every way

As someone who has recently gotten into book binding, this is a dream come true to see the process

The man explaining everything loves this! You can see it on his face.

that big gold block and 9:24 and the room full of them at 16:42 are just about two of the coolest things ive ever seen

I haven’t been a field trip for a long time! Thank you!

Someone needs to do this for the wheel of time. It deserves true premium editions.

As I grow old, the more respect and i appreciation I have for craftsmen and craftswomen. To see people work meticulously in and day out, with so much respect and reverence gives the end product much value and imbues it with a soul.

I love this because I've never had an interest on how to make a leatherbound book before, yet this video had my attention the entire way through!

Oh man, this is fantastic to see. I feel as though the guy giving the tour to Isaac has a ton of passion to create a quality product. Dragonsteel team, great selection!

This was incredibly fascinating. I had no idea how much extra human effort went into making the leatherbounds, I assumed it was mostly automated. Now I appreciate the quality of them even more than I did before, which was quite a bit.

Thanks to EVERYONE involved in this project! Glad this project is in the right hand to deliver this beautiful, gorgeous product to us. ❤️😍

As someone who has manually bound a book in leather and worked in an assembly line, I loved seeing this beautiful blend of the two things I've experienced.

This is insane, I am from near Church Hill and have met several of those people, had no idea they even did bookbinding. Very cool to see!

Feels like I'm watching an episode of Mr. Rodgers 😂 Love it!

Great video!! Please continue to make your leather bounds at this factory :)

Pledged for the signed WoR and WoK books. 500USD plus shipping is not cheap - but seeing the quality of these books, being able to support Brandon and the people who are making them is worth it to me. I will get every edition of the Stormlight Archives in these leatherbounds. They will be a centerpiece of my office and bring me joy for many years. Thank you Brandon and the hard working folk at Bindtech.

I'm amazed at how much manual handling, checking, refining and rechecking is involved. No wonder these things are so amazing.

Absolutely love ya’ll giving business to smaller, local companies and pushing the boundaries of what’s possible for mass high-fantasy quality production. Really enjoyed the detailed tour highlighting all that goes into its creation. The gentleman thanking yall for the business at the end of the tour was also so heartwarming. Blessings to Brandon and team and all of their families.

This is one of my favorite Sanderson videos I’ve seen. Gives me a greater appreciation for all the work done both leatherbound books and sprayed edges

I love this! He was passionate, enthusiastic, and proud of the work and of his employees throughout the entire tour. It was such a pleasure to watch. To hear him say how Brandon's team has supported their incredible work in the past decade made me tear up. So much respect & appreciation on both sides. My goal now is to afford one of these well-made beauties. Thank you for this awesome video!

This was fascinating. When I was getting my undergraduate 30+ years ago I had a friend getting her Masters in Book Arts. I saw a lot of what she did. I guess I assumed a mass printed book would have been much more automated by now. It’s incredibly moving to see just how many people literally had a hand in creating the beautiful books on my shelves. I have never questioned the pricing of these books. After all I don’t NEED them to read the book, but now I’m amazed they don’t cost even more. I’m a lifelong reader, but I wasn’t able to collect special editions until the last 8-10 years. Just yesterday while out to lunch with my nephew and his girlfriend I showed them the Words of Radiance edition. I felt bad when I realized after their reaction that I was paying almost one month of his rent. I get it, I was in that position for many years so I am very grateful I can now afford luxuries. When we got home I showed him my Way of Kings leather bound plus some of my other special editions. He will inherit my collection some day and hadn’t realized that a many were more valuable than he thought. Do I have to have them? No. But this video also showed me how many jobs my hobby supports and that makes me happy. I’d love to see more behind the scenes content like this.

I'm an amateur bookbinder, and this was so fascinating. I really appreciated how this respects the process of what I would be doing by hand and just moves it to a larger and a faster scale. But they're not leaving anything out. If anything, they are adding more steps that make things a better product. I really liked this.

No idea the process took so many steps, the guys at Bindtech do great work.

I’m so glad I became a fan of an author with a team that go all out for his products and his fans. Watching this video makes spending my money a whole lot more worth it. Than you and your amazing team.

Now I’m going to be tempted to take off my cover to see if my book has hand drawings 😀 This is awesome content - as an engineer, I love watching how things are made. Thanks to Brandon and everyone else to the love, attention, and craftsmanship that everyone obviously applies to all levels.

I find it amazing that a book, which is such a solitary work, passes through so many hands being published- especially in cases like this. It's a marvel and a work of art. Well done to every single person that worked on in, you can feel the love :)

Quality content, ladies and gentlemen. 👏 More of these, Issac and Brandon, pls!

This makes me appreciate EVEN MORE how quality and beautiful these books are. I love knowing all the behind the scenes details. I hope one day we see some more details like this behind the Secret Projects, the warehouse and art development. I want to see everything 😁

I've never put my face so close to the screen before when watching a video. This is fantastic! And whoo-hoo Tennessee! They make my favorite luxury/practical pencils (Musgrave Pencil Co.) and my favorite luxury books!

Man, I love seeing stuff like this. How it’s made is one of my favorite shows. Thanks for everyone involved doing amazing work!

Oh man, the guy giving the tour reminds me of a Tenesse book nerd Steve Irwin. It makes me sad, but I love it.

This is amazing. So awesome that you are supporting American businesses in this way. Makes me more proud to back this and future projects

I love this it truely reinforces the value of rich history that books like this come from. The genuin love and care shown for the books being made is heart warming this is roots for my love of books in visual format. Vegan books would be amazing, but never forget where it all started we would not have the luxury and privalige of this ethical hope if the rich history of the craft was lost in consumerism and lack of apreciation for books like this.(sorry about my dyslexia hope i made sence)❤❤❤

I mean... this must be one of the best episodes ever!

Lets have a moment of apreciation for isac. He thuse so much work in dragonsteel. Without him everything would fall apart. Thank you for all you do. If your book is good, il buy it😊❤

Oh, my goodness! I had no idea about this process, and it was so amazing to get to learn! Thank you for doing this the way that you do - it's so obvious how much care Bindtech puts into their bindings, and the products are gorgeous 💛 I'm so excited to grow my collection!!

As a an amateur bookbinder I'm geeking out at seeing a large scale machine production of a leatherbound book. I've made a leatherbound only once before with spine pleats (but not as nice as the Stormlight oness here) but it took me so long to complete it! Although machinery will never replace human hands, it does make the tedious steps easier and faster! The slight rounding and backing by machinery was perplexing, but probably because I'm more familiar with doing it by hand. Bookbinding and physical books are a work of art necessary to humanity and the human experience, we must never ever let the digital age and any technological advancement erase this legacy.

This video was wonderful! It was so fascinating to see the leather bound being made with such care and honestly it just makes the book even more special. I can’t wait to hold this book in my hands, thank you so much Dragonsteel team for putting this video together.

This is amazing! Really good to see the people who are behind the books.

I would love to see the process, even if it’s the same process, for each leather bound or specialty books Dragonsteel makes in the future. Seeing the process for the Secret Projects would’ve been amazing also

This was great getting to see the process that goes into making the leatherbound books and the people behind the process.

This feels like going on an amazing trip. THANK YOU!

I love the professional yet grassroots feel of the whole process. I wish I had the leatherbounds of Elantris and Mistborn lol as they’re the only ones I’ve read 😅

I love that he's just writing on the outside of the endsheets because they're going to be glued into the cover, but there will be a set of books with that hidden underneath!

As a leatherworker and an amature bookbinder I am blown away by this video and being able to get an insight in the process. These books are just incredible!

Fascinating! Thank you for creating this, and many thanks to the wonderful Tennesseans! ❤

What a fantasic vid... Keep up the great work ... everyone involved

I love yalls leatherbounds. The quality is insane!

This was really interesting! Thanks for the inside look!

Love the paperquality in shadows of self/alloy of law!! The texture or feel of the art gives a more high quality and ancient feel! Makes me really think of a leatherbound tome. A lot better than more glozy magazine feel of paper on art in earlier books

This is the perfect subject for him to expound on. The physical item is just as important as the content...how many of us have purchased books based on Cover love alone??? I know i have..

That's one passionate guy. You can see he knows every smallest detail of the process.

This is awesome! I'm so excited to see the craftsmanship involved. Kinda want Destin from Smarter Every Day to do a tour and dig into the process. Thank you for the video!

This is one of the coolest videos I've seen in a while.

Great video. Love seeing you work with Americans aswell. I feel like I need to buy more stuff everytime I was a live stream or content from Brandon. It feels like he’s so genuine to me and just a nice dude.

Very interesting watch absolutely love the behind the scenes sneak peak

My southern fried production minded heart burst into flames (in a good way) when I saw the books are made in Tennessee!!!!

This is just incredible. I’ve always been awed by the written word and the journey through our lives. Thank you

Love this, these books are beautiful; it was really cool to get a look inside the process to produce them

I thought I would put this on in the background while I was reading, but I got too caught up in it. Really enjoyed this and glad I waited to watch it until I could actually give it my focus.

Absolutely loved this video. Great to see people putting together quality products in an American plant. Love that this was all done here.

This makes buying these more worth it. I cant wait to buy the other leather bounds from you guys

As someone from Germany it always amazes me to see that oftentimes (like here) the machines used in those kinds of businesses around the world, are made in Germany. Many of them have still their warning labels etc. in german, and I spotted quite a few which appear to be made by Kolbus.

Very Educational. Keep American Printers In Business!

Thanks for sharing all this process. I love your books, I have to work in my English to read them in original language, but I'll keep dreaming in Spanish with your stories. Greeting from Neuquén, Argentina.

This is amazing. We need more of these types of videos, this was fantastic.

This was absolutely wonderful!

The dude giving you guys a tour (Steve Kendall I believe) absolutely loves his job. It brings my heart joy to see so much passion poured into one’s work.

This was amazing to watch, thank you Dragonsteel!

I LOVE this kind of video. The production side of things is so fascinating!

This was awesome, thanks for the detailed walk-through of the process. I love old style book binding videos and the like, this was perfect.

You guys are the best, full stop!!

This is SO fantastic, love this type of content. Keep doing what you're doing DragonSteel!

Amazing! Loved seeing the process.

What a beautiful book. I can’t wait for the day mine arrives.

This was so interesting to watch!!

love this video. i appreciate that they've shared this with us fans of Sanderson

Things of beauty, and I love the support for the binding team!

This is absolutely fascinating. Thank you so much for sharing!

This is incredible; thank you all so much for putting this information out here! I love seeing things being made, and books are absolute treasures

As and engineer I love this type of videos, thank you all for sharing can't wait to have that leatherbound in my hands.

Coolest video I’ve seen in a while. Thanks DragonSteel team!

This was very fun to see how the production works. Thanks for the mini doc

The gilding and foil are beautiful!

That is amazing to watch. I've worked in large scale cabinet manufacturing, and there are some many detailed elements that remind me of how edgebsnders work. Amazing to see the consistency they product with a lot of hand fed operations.

This type of insight is amazing. Thank you for this.

The craftsmanship is amazing! Loved the field trip. Thank you.

What a fantastic video! Maybe a “how to care for you leatherbounds” video? General knowledge. How to handle. How best to store them? Etc. could be a nice follow up to this one!

Love the craftsmanship that goes into this! Great content!

Wow that’s an incredible video and really shows the effort and makes me appreciate the books so much more!

Oh I LOVE seeing this stuff!! I've handbound my own hardcover books before, but this is on a COMPLETELY different level. So cool!

I’m an aspiring bookbinder and this is so lovely to see!!

What an interesting process 😎

Wow wow wow! Thank you soooo much for this video I love the process and I love that it's made in America and that so much care goes into each book. I'm going to cherish each one the more for it thank you every single person who has worked on these projects and made these amazing works of art

Isaac's jacket is dope. I want one.