How 100-Year-Old Books Are Professionally Restored | Restoration
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- čas přidán 12. 04. 2024
- 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/
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.
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!
I don't think it's either, though: it's a rebinding.
The skill of the book binder is amazing.
I tried to emulate this master, but as soon as I applied glue, my Kindle stopped working.
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Your kindle must be defective. I bound mine this way and I’m sure it’s as good as the day I shelved it!
Brilliant
I am not a fan of the cover style but the whole process is simply amazing, bookbinding is such a fascinating art!
Interesting restoration process, surprising final design aesthetics , was not expecting a wizard book.
Since the pages were not fixable, he gave the cover that look to match it. I guess.
I was thinking it looks like it belongs in the library at Hogwarts.
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.
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!
I could watch someone do this for hours
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!
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.
I agree
The book can't be that old, or valuable, if he is touching it bare handed. Skin oils would destroy the paper.
@@even1313 It must be valuable enough to justify this expensive treatment.
@@drucker03 Yeah, they're making a lot of money from youtube views and ads.
@@even1313 I think most people overestimate what you can earn with such a video.
Our artisan treats it gently, immediately begins hitting it with a hammer. LOL. Love this video.
Im worried his scissors arent big enough to handle the task of cutting those threads.
Those weren’t scissors, they were shears.
This book restoration video is like a mesmerizing art show! 📚🎨
Gooood morning from central Florida! Hope everyone has a great day!
Good evening from northwest central Alberta Canada hope you get yourself some good rest down there.
As a book lover, this was fascinating to me.
i dont understand why the huge scissors or the feather on a pen.
I've always wanted to do this. But wow, it must take years to perfect. Beautiful job Mr. Artisan.
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)
I found this whole video so interesting. I was enthralled from beginning until the end. Thank you so much.
I think it's kinda misleading that the title says, "how this is restored," but doesn’t *actually* tell us how it's restored or what's going on
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.
@@drucker03 Thank you for the clarification. This is a trade i'd love to learn.
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”.)
7:07 “The repair worker then uses a conservation grade scissor and carefully makes a cut that can later be reversed by future conservators”
Lmao, I saw this comment before that part of the video, and almost thought it was real 😂
I read it with Julian's voice 😂
What a fabulous skill to have. Every moment of this video was wonderful. I didn't realize so much went into the restoration of a book.
This is fascinating. I am incredibly impressed and fascinated with the process!
You Sir are an artist!
The rebonding was carefully and well done, but the final look was awful, I don't think they did the book justice. Looks like a Disney land wizard book
Totally agree, beautiful craftsmanship, shitty aesthetics.
Final appearance of the book almost certainly follows the book owners instructions - The customer is always right!
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.
Fascinating process, beautiful craftsmanship. Thanks for sharing this with us 👍from California.
Preserving history in the best way possible.
I really appreciate the comments that give credit and honor to the work, even if the style is not necessarily their taste.
Bellissimo lavoro, il presente è vita.
Fascinating and brilliant to watch.
Absolutely marvelous!! Thanks for sharing!
This is what I’d call unintentional ASMR 🤤
A labor of love to be sure. Thank you for sharing. Have a blessed day.l
Truly a very interesting process.
Interesting choice for the cover I guess.. :|
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.
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 :)
fascinating indeed. how long did the process take? and whats the name of the book?
Very good video to learn some details. Thank you!
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.
Great job!
AA master craftsman indeed!
A job well done
Real craftsmanship must be preserved
And passed to the next generation
"Every stitch tells a story" but we're not going to tell you a dang thing about what we are doing or why
LMAO EXACTLY
Bu gerçekten saygıyı hak eden bir işçilik. Saygı duydum, elinize sağlık.
Que impresionante restauración le hicieron a ese libro.
Czy treść zawarta w księdze jest warta takiej pracy i oprawy?
Very interesting to watch 👍
Pred 30 lety jsrm se vyučil knihařem. Rád vidím toto krásné remeslo. Jsem spokojený s vysledkem prace tohoto muže. 👍🙂 Pavel 🇨🇿
I am wondering if, while the paragraphs were loose, they were scanned?
Awesome 👏👏👏👏🇬🇧
I could totally spend the day doing this.. getting paid is just a bonus.
Fantastic.
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😅
Love this
A stitch in time saves nine
I love this video .....❤
Nice job, but I was also expecting to see the cleanliness of the pages from all the stains.
Does the technique work on books that are not 100 years old?
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.
че на лицевой так криво приклеил?
5 minutes after I was done I'd discover I had placed a packet of pages out of order..
Por favor, activen los subtitulos. Gracias
Cuales subtítulos? Están desactivados 😂
Nicest necronomicon on eBay
I don't think they had spray bottles hundreds of years ago. Beautiful work.
They used monks with bad hayfever who would sneeze out copious amounts of microdroplets of snot and moisture on demand.
I bet they had.
Sure they did. Perfume is an old and venerable trade.
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Interesting to watch, however it lacks instructional detail to raise it above being more than that.
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wow
17:06 this jar is truly cursed
Неужели все так плохо и у мастера нет рабочего места, зачем же клеить на книге. Охуенный профессионал
pudo haberlo escaneado primero
Great video. Sorry, not to be pedantic, but this is not a restoration but a rebinding. :-)
Why go to the effort of blurring out the book title? It's not as if it is still in copyright.
The edges needed to be trimmed off .
Why no gloves? Would not the oils in bare hands leave a mark?
Gloves are bad for books.
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italian paper, Irish thread ? None of that in England where the book was made ????????
'...silicon impregnated...' No, _silicone_ impregnated.
Nothing is clean there for doing such delicate important work. Even his apron looks moldy
You are invited to go there and thoroughly clean up.
@@drucker03 You have no common sense. It's sad
@@bobbichamberland1607 You were wrong and you still are wrong. I think it's because you don't have a clue. That' a better reason to be sad.
I think it just is glue that got on the apron as he works. I had no idea that binding a book required so much glue!
@@LeesaDeAndrea I see the glue but mold can grow on glue too.
Thank you for your input
Good video but i would have preferred it without the commentary.
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.
Hmm, me no likey. I prefer a traditionally bound book appearance. Cover was wack
Not a restoration + I hate the final result = cancel subscription.
so you chose to restore because it is satisfying ??? what nonsense
So you say….. how rude! 🙄
@@marykallis3677 why is that rude karen?
It is satisfying. Who are you to decide what other people are allowed to like or not?!
@@lenastjarnlof437 ok Karen
The book can't be that old or valuable if he's touching it with his bare hands.
Gloves are bad for books. Not how they were intended to be used nor good for them.
So beautiful. What a delicious process. Really amazing.
Unfortunately, “A tradition going back to 1,900 years.” One which unfortunately will disappear forever thanks to the reckless and blind introduction of digital technology instead of real books for simply greedy and control purposes.
You know, this really upsets me a lot. We are not stupid. We need to learn what things are called, what the procedure is called, what the order and purpose is, instead of being treated like idiots!. If you are going to such lengths to show the whole process, for heaven's sake, educate us! GRRRRRRR ! Why didn't you clean or trim the discolored edges?
Because it is irreversible.
Seems a bit aggressive for no reason.
This is just the basics of how something is done. If you want something more in-depth with proper terminology, you should perhaps pay for a class.
Someone doesn’t know anything about conservation.
@@picassomooon Precisely!
Халтурненько!
Why does this person not have gloves on?!
Because the materials aren't infected
Because it is 100 years old. 1920's. If it was 1000 years old he wouldn't be doing any of this and would have to wear gloves. This paper is quite thick. I have many books older than this one you can read just fine without gloves.
Because gloves are bad for books. Yes, even 1000 year old books.
Oh what a shame. Another AI voice generated content with pictures.