I love watching you work. Watching the creation of something beautiful is always therapeutic. "Creators have a fundamental advantage over destroyers. Destroyers will eventually run out of things to destroy. Creators will never run out of things to create."
Very nice! I bound copies of A Christmas Carol in 2009 for family gifts (nowhere near as nice as yours are!). I don't know if anybody else in my family still has theirs, but I read mine every year.
Deadlines are crazy. Even just binding for someone else is so much harder than when it’s just for yourself! I bound the first copy of my mom’s book (I was inspired by your medieval binding series), and it turned out pretty well, I got the majority of it done relatively quickly. I started to bind copies of the same book for a friend-admittedly, in a different style-and so many things have gone wrong. 🤪Practice makes perfect, I guess! This is beautiful already! I’m sure your wife will love it, and I can’t wait until part two!😄
oh this has me excited. i love this story. i have a 1916 copy of a short story book with this story in it i would read each year. but this year i get to read a more original version of the book. i went to an estate sale for a lady who had a library and collected books back to the 1800s, and i found a 1922 facsimile of the original printing of this book, complete with a reproductuon of the title, preface and top half of first page of the original manuscript in Charles' own handwriting, and has all the original illistrations. given its a 3 day weekend, i feel a sunday night sit down with hot cocoa and a faux fireplace is in order for this one i get a kick out of the fact my copy is 101 years old and is a tribute to the original printing complete with forewords by people who are long gone and it reads like they feel its just as much a classic as we feel it is today, 180 years after it was originally written
Absolutely riveting! Painting and burnishing the gold edges was wonderful to watch. You always make everything look far easier than I am sure it is, and the finished product is always a work of art. Looking forward to the next part! Thank you.
Omg the cracking of those pages was asmr gold I was hoping you’d do that and if that’s a gift that person is very blessed to be given such a beautifully handcrafted item
If I were starting my life over I would certainly endeavor to try to do what you do. I have an MFA in painting but I would parent my studio work with this art form. I am so inspired.
Probably the most beautiful edge decoration I've seen, damn! Love watching you work. Not only are you masterful at bookbinding, but your videos themselves are beautifully made and so atmospheric.
This is so soothing to watch, ironically on an iPad! What a treasure for her. I would love to browse through hand bound books like this. Thank you for sharing.
What a gorgeous piece of work (in progress) this is, I'm certain your wife will love it. Thank you for sharing the process (and the sources of your wisdom) with us. :)
Next, sift in 3 sheets of gold, stirring often... That was amazing, I had no idea you could do such a thing on the edge of a book and still be able to open it afterwards :)
With so much care going into it, it seems sure this book will last over a century. And how special to think that maybe, if the internet lasts that long, someday someone will be able to see it being made a hundred years ago.
Dennis, you demonstrate your '10,000 hours' in a sublime ballet that fascinates & inspires in equal measure. I just don't envy all the shapening of the cutting tools you must endure, especially with all your cherished cutting devices that can't just 'change out the blade'. Thankyou very much and seasons greeting to you.
You are a very good teacher! I wish you would do a video on print the text block using MS Word. I have written a few stories that I would like to make into book but not sure how to do the lay out and maybe tips and tricks.
I have read some the comments here and several has said how soothing and therapeutic it is to watch do this, I am slowing building up my library of digitized books that I will slowly print out and bind with leather coverings, classics like A Christmas Carol is one that I will do, Dickens has several great classics.
Dennis , once again such exquisite work, meticulously done to your usual exemplary standard, can't wait to see the rest and the finished book, wishing you and yours a Very Merry Christmas, Steve
Beautiful, and very restful to watch. I particularly loved the treatment of the edges. Cant wait for the rest of these, thank you. It helped calm my Christmas emotional morass that I can sometimes get stuck in. Way too many big feelings, most of which no longer apply to me since I’m now alone. It’s nice to just watch someone working on something beautiful and not think too much for a few minutes.
At some point Id love to see a video about the process of printing on paper in the correct way to order and space out the text (margins and all that) love your content!
I haven't fully figured out how to deal with headers and footers and page numbering, but as long as you don't want an odd-sized paper, MS Word has a function that will print a document so it can be folded into book signatures.
First, that is absolutely beautiful and was a joy to watch. Second, when I was a lot younger my dad bought me a bunch of old Tom Swift books from 1910-1925(ish) and I spent years being amazed at the construction and wondering how they were put together compared to more modern books which you have answered with your videos. Amazing work sir and I can’t wait for part two!
yet another work of art, but i was so distracted by that cover of comfort and joy. it reminded me of sticking my fingers in and out of my ears as a child to listen to how the sounds changed.
A wonderfully meditative video to welcome the coming holiday. Thank you, Dennis, for a "crafty" tribute to Christmas! Very much looking forward to part 2!
Absolutely stunning work! Nothing like finishing a long day at work and winding down with your truly masterful, calming, and therapeutic craftsmanship. Thank you for sharing with us and looking forward to parts 2 and 3. Happy holidays to you, and happy new year!
Question: have you done a video on how to print signatures? That is, how to format a book into however many pages, or finding pre-formatted books? I also wouldn't mind buying unbound signatures I've been wanting to hand bind a book (pride and prejudice) for my wifebfor a really long time, and this channel is an absolute goldmine!
I did this just this week with the old digital only "Living Rulebook 6.0" for the board game Blood Bowl. Even made a carefully measured hand drawn custom front cover. didn't need to, the rules were perfectly accessible as a pdf, the print quality was questionable, binding is a bit shabby, materials were cheap and my tools are crooked and vaguely unreliable, and I'm not even sure I'll use it since it's an outdated version, but it came up for game night next week and the idea sprung to mind, and it's such a peaceful and satisfying thing to do, with the measuring and folding, cutting and stitching and so on. I'm so happy I found your videos on how to do this.
Very nice. And such a coincidence, I bound a set of "Nussknacker und Mäusekönig" as gift for christmas, including a few leather covered ones. The latter also have the edges painted red and sprnkled with gold. No sponging on a different shade of red though. In my case, I just mixed a little bit of EVA/PVA into the watercolor based paint, then sprinkled the gold onto that while still moist.
Beautiful. What I know about bookbinding is just from your channel, so I would have bet good money that pasting, painting and gold-leafing the edges would have permanently stuck the pages together - and you just riffled them gently and they were totally free; so I lost my bet, who'd have thunk it.
Absolutely love your work. It is very inspiring and I look forward to every video. I did reach out to you on Facebook, I believe someone is stealing your work and reposting it there as they removed all of your branding from the video and added music over it, but the video is undoubtedly yours.
I've been really enjoying watching and learning from you! If I may ask, do you plan on covering the process of making the end papers in a future video? I'd love to hear verbalized concepts of what youre doing there sometime! 🥰
Great job! Thank you for sharing it I am curious about the sequence "trimming fore-edge > rounding > backing > trimming tail & head" instead of "trimming fore-edge > rounding > trimming tail & head > backing". I guess this has something to do with the edge decoration requirements. Maybe backing after trimming tail and head would introduce some distort which should be avoided?
This post is so lovely. I find watching so calming and warming to the cockles of my heart! I was imagining how your work ennobles the written word while carrying out a tradition that is so easily overlooked, although this was not so once upon a time! Do you make other mono-prints of Gutenberg Project books? Just wondering.... Merry Christmas to you and your family Dennis! Good tidings from California! 🎀🎀🎄 🎀🎀
Your wokrs are so beautiful! I have recently learned a new method of painting the fore edge, I would like to share it with you. I use water base wood stain (or I don't know how to say exactly in English) The light colour for eg. yellow was painted by a sponge. And After the first colour dried, I painted the dark colour (for eg. red) with yarn, which I rolled up after dipping it in the paint. It takes a bit of practice to get the thread to be dyed, but once you get the hang of it, you can make beautiful patterns. I hope it was understandable, despite my terrible language skills.
Beautiful work with the gold and the colors of the book -- the marbled papers and the edges are great. I've added gold leaf sprinkles to embroidery fabric, but I haven't had the chance to see this kind of book edge gilding done before. It's nice to see a video of it.
Hi Dennis, would it be possible to get advice on how best to print the text? I've got an in-game book that my DM wrote that I'd like to bind and hand illustrate for him but I'm not sure how to prepare the text into signatures. As always loved the video! Thanks!
What a great round on so little swell! Man, I never realized how short A Christmas Carol was LOL You use a jewelers saw for cutting into the text block, correct? I was thinking of getting one for my quarto lumbeck binds to get some cords in there. And oh my GOD the edge decorations were GORGEOUS! I cannot wait to see how this all comes together!
I was wondering if you could create some of the books found in the Elder Scrolls games? Especially the books in the Skyrim edition have text and beautiful bindings.
Thank you, I have been collecting them for quite a few years now. And the tool is called simply a burnisher, or more specifically an agate burnisher. Part 2 coming very soon!
As you were looking through the endpapers I was thinking “that one!” - I do have a question about the sewing around the recessed cords, it looks as though you come out through the signature before the cord and then go back in after the cord, doesn’t that risk enlarging the hole for each cord in the signature? It seems like if you came out after the cord, and then backstitched around the cord to go back through the signature, each signature hole would stay a smaller hole?
did I see correctly? are you printing the book on a regular home inkjet printer? Will that last a long time? I've always wondered besides old fashioned letterpress, what is the longest lasting media?
I love watching you work. Watching the creation of something beautiful is always therapeutic.
"Creators have a fundamental advantage over destroyers. Destroyers will eventually run out of things to destroy. Creators will never run out of things to create."
That crackle as you broke the glue and gilding between the pages was something else.
Very nice! I bound copies of A Christmas Carol in 2009 for family gifts (nowhere near as nice as yours are!). I don't know if anybody else in my family still has theirs, but I read mine every year.
I really hope they still have theirs. I know I'd keep something like that forever.
I will never stop being amazed at his ability to consistently fold paper perfectly in half.
Deadlines are crazy. Even just binding for someone else is so much harder than when it’s just for yourself! I bound the first copy of my mom’s book (I was inspired by your medieval binding series), and it turned out pretty well, I got the majority of it done relatively quickly. I started to bind copies of the same book for a friend-admittedly, in a different style-and so many things have gone wrong. 🤪Practice makes perfect, I guess! This is beautiful already! I’m sure your wife will love it, and I can’t wait until part two!😄
oh this has me excited. i love this story. i have a 1916 copy of a short story book with this story in it i would read each year. but this year i get to read a more original version of the book.
i went to an estate sale for a lady who had a library and collected books back to the 1800s, and i found a 1922 facsimile of the original printing of this book, complete with a reproductuon of the title, preface and top half of first page of the original manuscript in Charles' own handwriting, and has all the original illistrations. given its a 3 day weekend, i feel a sunday night sit down with hot cocoa and a faux fireplace is in order for this one
i get a kick out of the fact my copy is 101 years old and is a tribute to the original printing complete with forewords by people who are long gone and it reads like they feel its just as much a classic as we feel it is today, 180 years after it was originally written
Absolutely riveting! Painting and burnishing the gold edges was wonderful to watch. You always make everything look far easier than I am sure it is, and the finished product is always a work of art. Looking forward to the next part! Thank you.
Love the natural sounds and music-free!
So wonderful ... can't wait for parts 2 and 3 ... 😊
Это видео - наверное лучший подарок для подписчиков канала! Спасибо!
How I healed watching this...
There are no words.
Thank you for this gift.
Happy and peaceful Christmas to you and your loved ones, Dennis
I am absolutely JEALOUS of that plough/finishing press combo.
Good heavens! That was a joy to watch from start to finish! Absolutely amazing and beautiful!
I have never bound a book, but every time I watch you work I wish I had. Maybe one day.
It's the fact you're as skilled a videographer as a bookbinder, to me, that elevates this. The (faux?) focus pull for the sewing timelapse- sublime.
This was amazing! I'm very much looking forward to parts 2 and 3!
Coming soon!
Master of the art of bookbinding
Such a blessing to watch craftsmanship of high quality, happy Christmas all, christ is born. Peace be to all.
Gorgeous!! A gift sure to be adored!
It's always so nice to watch you work, thank you for the video - a Christmas gift for all of us!
Omg the cracking of those pages was asmr gold I was hoping you’d do that and if that’s a gift that person is very blessed to be given such a beautifully handcrafted item
I'd forgotten all about Glen's video - need to go and re-watch that. This is looking to be one fine present Dennis 👍
I'm can't wait to see the slip case .😊
stunning! I adore the edges.
Обожаю твои видео!
Спасибо за доставленное удовольствие!
I SAW HIS FACE---THAT OF A JOLLY OLD ELF
If I were starting my life over I would certainly endeavor to try to do what you do. I have an MFA in painting but I would parent my studio work with this art form.
I am so inspired.
This is nice, a project that's not massive. You don't lose interest and it's over before it becomes a job.
Beautiful! I can't wait to see the finished book.
Wow...that edge trimmer!
Well that's absolutely fabulous gilding
Your skill and artistry are such beautiful things to watch in action. Thank you for sharing them with us. ♥
Probably the most beautiful edge decoration I've seen, damn! Love watching you work. Not only are you masterful at bookbinding, but your videos themselves are beautifully made and so atmospheric.
I don't miss these ASMR-style videos at all. I'd much rather actively learn with your narration.
He's doing nothing here he hasn't done and explained in previous videos. Maybe you'll want to revisit those and take some notes.
A true artisan at work!!! Thank you for sharing this with us.
This is so soothing to watch, ironically on an iPad! What a treasure for her. I would love to browse through hand bound books like this. Thank you for sharing.
oooh the red going on was so satisfying i cannot lie
I was really pleased with that shot too!😁
What a gorgeous piece of work (in progress) this is, I'm certain your wife will love it. Thank you for sharing the process (and the sources of your wisdom) with us. :)
Next, sift in 3 sheets of gold, stirring often... That was amazing, I had no idea you could do such a thing on the edge of a book and still be able to open it afterwards :)
One of the great Christmas classics by Dickens
With so much care going into it, it seems sure this book will last over a century. And how special to think that maybe, if the internet lasts that long, someday someone will be able to see it being made a hundred years ago.
Dennis, you demonstrate your '10,000 hours' in a sublime ballet that fascinates & inspires in equal measure. I just don't envy all the shapening of the cutting tools you must endure, especially with all your cherished cutting devices that can't just 'change out the blade'. Thankyou very much and seasons greeting to you.
You are a very good teacher! I wish you would do a video on print the text block using MS Word. I have written a few stories that I would like to make into book but not sure how to do the lay out and maybe tips and tricks.
This is beautiful, Dennis, as always. Thank you. Looking forward to two and three.
I have read some the comments here and several has said how soothing and therapeutic it is to watch do this, I am slowing building up my library of digitized books that I will slowly print out and bind with leather coverings, classics like A Christmas Carol is one that I will do, Dickens has several great classics.
Lovely!
Oh, this is going to be a beautiful book.
Fantastic editing! Wow you continue to amaze and entertain us all
Spettacolare..grazie!!
Better it is impossible
Blessed hands and mind. They work together.
Beautiful work. How lucky someone's going to be receiving such a personal gift from you. I do hope they always treasure it.
Beautiful!! What an amazing gift!!
Wow! A joy to watch.
Really enjoyed the asmr format
Dennis , once again such exquisite work, meticulously done to your usual exemplary standard, can't wait to see the rest and the finished book, wishing you and yours a Very Merry Christmas, Steve
Beautiful, and very restful to watch. I particularly loved the treatment of the edges. Cant wait for the rest of these, thank you. It helped calm my Christmas emotional morass that I can sometimes get stuck in. Way too many big feelings, most of which no longer apply to me since I’m now alone. It’s nice to just watch someone working on something beautiful and not think too much for a few minutes.
At some point Id love to see a video about the process of printing on paper in the correct way to order and space out the text (margins and all that) love your content!
I haven't fully figured out how to deal with headers and footers and page numbering, but as long as you don't want an odd-sized paper, MS Word has a function that will print a document so it can be folded into book signatures.
Such a joy to watch! THANK YOU, over and over! Can't wait for Part II! Get Crackin'! (haha)
Oh I made sure the book was finished before posting part 1, don’t worry. (I just need to get crackin’ on editing lol)
@@FourKeysBookArts ❤
Really amazing, what paper did you use? Can't find any in canada 😢
First, that is absolutely beautiful and was a joy to watch. Second, when I was a lot younger my dad bought me a bunch of old Tom Swift books from 1910-1925(ish) and I spent years being amazed at the construction and wondering how they were put together compared to more modern books which you have answered with your videos. Amazing work sir and I can’t wait for part two!
yet another work of art, but i was so distracted by that cover of comfort and joy. it reminded me of sticking my fingers in and out of my ears as a child to listen to how the sounds changed.
A wonderfully meditative video to welcome the coming holiday. Thank you, Dennis, for a "crafty" tribute to Christmas! Very much looking forward to part 2!
Absolutely stunning work! Nothing like finishing a long day at work and winding down with your truly masterful, calming, and therapeutic craftsmanship. Thank you for sharing with us and looking forward to parts 2 and 3. Happy holidays to you, and happy new year!
Question: have you done a video on how to print signatures? That is, how to format a book into however many pages, or finding pre-formatted books? I also wouldn't mind buying unbound signatures
I've been wanting to hand bind a book (pride and prejudice) for my wifebfor a really long time, and this channel is an absolute goldmine!
I did this just this week with the old digital only "Living Rulebook 6.0" for the board game Blood Bowl. Even made a carefully measured hand drawn custom front cover. didn't need to, the rules were perfectly accessible as a pdf, the print quality was questionable, binding is a bit shabby, materials were cheap and my tools are crooked and vaguely unreliable, and I'm not even sure I'll use it since it's an outdated version, but it came up for game night next week and the idea sprung to mind, and it's such a peaceful and satisfying thing to do, with the measuring and folding, cutting and stitching and so on. I'm so happy I found your videos on how to do this.
Beautiful to watch.
there is no escape from hand sanding in hobby... even in book binding it seems!
Love your work. From one ‘leftie’ to another.
As someone whose knowledge of bookbinding could fit on the back of a 2nd class postage stamp, this is truly witchcraft!! I am mesmerised 😯
Really enjoyed watching you working and those tools😍!
Oh but it's beautiful! 😢
Amazing work, absolutely amazing work. And incredibly beautiful too.
The background music was very relaxing.
Very nice. And such a coincidence, I bound a set of "Nussknacker und Mäusekönig" as gift for christmas, including a few leather covered ones. The latter also have the edges painted red and sprnkled with gold. No sponging on a different shade of red though.
In my case, I just mixed a little bit of EVA/PVA into the watercolor based paint, then sprinkled the gold onto that while still moist.
Can't wait for the other parts!!
¡Qué maravilla!
Much good luck to you 🎄
Parabéns pelo seu don, e em compartilhar. Me apaixonei completamente por essa arte, meus parabéns.
Maravilhoso!
Beautiful. What I know about bookbinding is just from your channel, so I would have bet good money that pasting, painting and gold-leafing the edges would have permanently stuck the pages together - and you just riffled them gently and they were totally free; so I lost my bet, who'd have thunk it.
Being able to print out a book at home with a technology gizmo sure is something
Absolutely love your work. It is very inspiring and I look forward to every video. I did reach out to you on Facebook, I believe someone is stealing your work and reposting it there as they removed all of your branding from the video and added music over it, but the video is undoubtedly yours.
Thank you, I’m glad you’re enjoying my videos. Sadly the plagiarism is a known issue, but thank you for looking out for me!
@@FourKeysBookArts I’m sorry to hear that. Thank you for the reply though.
I've been really enjoying watching and learning from you! If I may ask, do you plan on covering the process of making the end papers in a future video? I'd love to hear verbalized concepts of what youre doing there sometime! 🥰
Great job! Thank you for sharing it
I am curious about the sequence "trimming fore-edge > rounding > backing > trimming tail & head" instead of "trimming fore-edge > rounding > trimming tail & head > backing". I guess this has something to do with the edge decoration requirements. Maybe backing after trimming tail and head would introduce some distort which should be avoided?
This post is so lovely. I find watching so calming and warming to the cockles of my heart! I was imagining how your work ennobles the written word while carrying out a tradition that is so easily overlooked, although this was not so once upon a time! Do you make other mono-prints of Gutenberg Project books? Just wondering....
Merry Christmas to you and your family Dennis! Good tidings from California! 🎀🎀🎄 🎀🎀
Your wokrs are so beautiful! I have recently learned a new method of painting the fore edge, I would like to share it with you. I use water base wood stain (or I don't know how to say exactly in English) The light colour for eg. yellow was painted by a sponge. And After the first colour dried, I painted the dark colour (for eg. red) with yarn, which I rolled up after dipping it in the paint. It takes a bit of practice to get the thread to be dyed, but once you get the hang of it, you can make beautiful patterns. I hope it was understandable, despite my terrible language skills.
Blown away! May I ask how you purchase/access the book for printing? I’d love to make a book from scratch.
Beautiful work with the gold and the colors of the book -- the marbled papers and the edges are great. I've added gold leaf sprinkles to embroidery fabric, but I haven't had the chance to see this kind of book edge gilding done before. It's nice to see a video of it.
Hi Dennis,
would it be possible to get advice on how best to print the text? I've got an in-game book that my DM wrote that I'd like to bind and hand illustrate for him but I'm not sure how to prepare the text into signatures.
As always loved the video!
Thanks!
So jealous of the old litho stone ... where did you get it??
What a great round on so little swell! Man, I never realized how short A Christmas Carol was LOL You use a jewelers saw for cutting into the text block, correct? I was thinking of getting one for my quarto lumbeck binds to get some cords in there. And oh my GOD the edge decorations were GORGEOUS! I cannot wait to see how this all comes together!
I was wondering if you could create some of the books found in the Elder Scrolls games? Especially the books in the Skyrim edition have text and beautiful bindings.
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Beautiful! As a new book binder I am so jealous of the tools!
What is the name for the tool for burnishing?
Thanks, looking forward to part 2!
Thank you, I have been collecting them for quite a few years now. And the tool is called simply a burnisher, or more specifically an agate burnisher. Part 2 coming very soon!
How do you set your printer to print text for book binding?
As you were looking through the endpapers I was thinking “that one!” - I do have a question about the sewing around the recessed cords, it looks as though you come out through the signature before the cord and then go back in after the cord, doesn’t that risk enlarging the hole for each cord in the signature? It seems like if you came out after the cord, and then backstitched around the cord to go back through the signature, each signature hole would stay a smaller hole?
Truly superb work! What is the best material to use for the cords?
did I see correctly? are you printing the book on a regular home inkjet printer? Will that last a long time? I've always wondered besides old fashioned letterpress, what is the longest lasting media?
👏👏👏👏👏
Lovely as always- I miss the voiceover but i know it's a bunch of extra work
You are entirely correct! I just didn’t have time to fit it in and get the videos (and the book!) done in time.
That paper looks lovely! Would you mind sharing the brand? Is the final book in A5 format?
At first: "Wow! And you can make a fungus on such a thin book!" and then: "WOW! The golden edge!"