Adam Savage Learns How Old Books Were Made!

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Жыл бұрын

Among the objects Adam collects and reveres are old books, some of which were bound and made in the era of the industrial revolution. But the craft and art of bookmaking began long before machines were invented to manufacture books, and Adam learns the storied history of bookbinding at the American Bookbinders Museum in San Francisco. It changed the way Adam looks at and appreciates books forever!
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@tested Жыл бұрын

Learn more about the American Bookbinders Museum at bookbindersmuseum.org/ and twitter.com/BkBindersMuseum

@daveotuwa5596 Жыл бұрын

You're keeping the book written by an ancestor of the actor who impersonated Mary Poppin's loved one in the film eponymous to the character. Happy bookbinding!📖

@OrAngeAnArchy Жыл бұрын

Madeline: Books are Jars, prove me wrong. LOL! She is awesome and her passion for this process and it's history is very visible.

@Dumber0 Жыл бұрын

sad part is that if this is in SF they will burn it down and make to a crackhouse or something. cant believe ppl in usa still live in that city

@harbl99 Жыл бұрын

"The whole point of a book is to protect the information that is inside it." The little snippet about 'why gilded page edges?' was a definite "Oooooooh, that's brilliant" moment.

@osmia Жыл бұрын

@Studio23Media Жыл бұрын

Yeah, that was a big revelation for me. 🤯

@Van-Leo Жыл бұрын

i felt my brain wrinkle with that one!

@DannyBeans 10 ай бұрын

It reminds me of a line from Carl Sagan, that writing was the first method of storing information outside of our own heads.

@Gandalf50Shades Жыл бұрын

I was not prepared for a museum curator as old as my mum to use the phrase "Its not a bug, its a feature".

@CorwynGC Жыл бұрын

The phrase dates back to at least 1975, so 48 years ago.

@infernas Жыл бұрын

Memes transcend generations! 😂

@scottsolar5884 Жыл бұрын

My artist grandmother said that phrase in the 1960’s

@unlokia Жыл бұрын

A Mum can be 16 when she bears a child. “As old as my Mum” is meaningless.

@catatonicbug7522 Жыл бұрын

You have to remember that the progress of book binding was just the ancestor of the IT industry. It's all technology that gets information out to the people who want it.

@ValerieG3 Жыл бұрын

When I got to the end of the video, my main thought was, "Wait, the video's over already?" I could have watched hours of this. I love learning about the history of books and bookbinding, and I loved both Madeline's explanations and demonstrations as well as Adam's fascination with everything. I also loved Madeline's casual mention that human skin was sometimes used as book covers. That's the voice of someone who's had to answer questions about that way too many times, and she is more than ready to talk about anything but that.

@azteclady Жыл бұрын

I always love Adam's enthusiasm for so-called 'esoteric' areas of expertise, but this one hit me right in the feels, as an amateur bookbinder and daughter of a librarian and a historian. Thank you!

@Wood-In-My-Eye Жыл бұрын

His enthusiasm Judy’s fuels my hunger for knowledge. His energy to learn and know things is so uplifting. I usually start my day watching an episode of him. It puts a smile on my face and in my heart to start my day like him!

@Prophes0r Жыл бұрын

I'd say his enthusiasm in general. Adam has managed to retain a spark of that child-like wonder that our society seems to love burning out of adults. Giddy appreciation of the tiny details simply because they are pretty, or clever, or even just pretty clever, is a thing we should be cultivating in our children and ourselves.

@johnrogers1251 10 ай бұрын

@azteclady : You're an amateur bookbinder - that's impressive! There's a librarian in my family and I like the history of math, so I guess we're somewhat alike.

@crissvartur Жыл бұрын

I actually laughed out loud when she derisively just said human skin binding was boring..... This is a woman who had, well deserved and valid, strong opinions on book coverings..... Was a lovely video to watch someone share their passion and work.

@hitman036 Жыл бұрын

“Unless you’re the human concerned” got me.

@russbowlus Жыл бұрын

"...unless you're the human involved." Ha!

@curtisbme Жыл бұрын

Obviously she is not impressed by the Necronomicon.

@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721 Жыл бұрын

I love how opinionated she is about the niche field of bookbinding.

@curtisbme Жыл бұрын

@@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721 Huh? Do you really think there any specialist in any "niche" who would not have strong opinions in their area of study??

@abbofun9022 Жыл бұрын

Adam, you are at your best in conversation with these super knowledgeable people, the Met and now this beautiful lady. The subject almost doesn’t matter, it’s gonna be awesome. Please find more of them and put them in front of a camera. P.s. wouldn’t mind at all if the post was an hour or more, fascinating from start to finish.

@STSGuitar16 Жыл бұрын

I second the idea of longer, more in-depth videos of stuff like this. Give me all of the minutia!

@sittingstill3578 8 ай бұрын

Adam already knows more about this topic than the docent. He’s helping her hit her talking points and recall interesting details he thinks are very cool for his viewers. They work really together. It’s so cool to see this museum featured on the channel. If I lived closer I’d love to check it out myself.

@joeyjanisheck82 Жыл бұрын

She is outstanding. This is a killer look into things most of us didn't even know.

@coeusdarksoul2855 Жыл бұрын

She really is... "Yes, the used human skin, which is very boring. Unless you're the human involved." has me DYYYYING!

@DirkFedermann Жыл бұрын

I love museums where the stuff they display still works and is still be used for demonstrations

@germansnowman Жыл бұрын

I grew up literally above our family printshop (sixth generation), my grandmother was a bookbinder, and I worked in the prepress and design industry for a long time. I still learned a lot about the history of bookbinding from this video. Fascinating!

@evym4233 Жыл бұрын

When you were looking at the book by the printing presses, at about 30 minutes into the video. I ended up crying. That book, was my father's very favorite book. and he'd have LOVED to have such a gorgeous edition of it. The Blue Flower by Henry Van Dyke. I am fascinated by hand made books, so I was watching this with my husband. Thank you for that unexpected moment of bitter sweet.

@nat7278 Жыл бұрын

Egg whites for gilding!?! Full stop. I think that just solved a long time problem I've had with gilding with modern size. In that one tidbit you made my day!

@RevUnstableBoy Жыл бұрын

Madeline (sp?) is such a wonderful book geek. You can really tell she care so much for the craft and loves the whole process, and as always Adam just soaks it all up. If I ever get out to the west coast I definitely will be making a stop at this museum.

@scarfboy Жыл бұрын

Yeah, most of my reaction was "I love her"

@nzlemming Жыл бұрын

Her name is Madeleine Robins, also known as author Madeleine E. Robins.

@steadfasttherenowned2460 Жыл бұрын

My oldest book is a Bible printed 1911 in England. It was presented, brand new, to my great grandmother. Its a full old and new testament with all the geographical maps of the places written about in the Bible. I know my great grandmother was the original owner because it was written on the first page.

@steadfasttherenowned2460 Жыл бұрын

Found in the copyright, there are only 12,000 copies made of this specific Bible edition.

@jtiem Жыл бұрын

Books are such a beautiful element of human history and deserve this moment of appreciatition. Well done Tested crew.

@joejones9520 Жыл бұрын

it's crazy how it mimics the auto industry in that the early creations were made to last almost forever but slowly books just like autos turned into almost disposable products not meant to be used for long.

@Pissarrospies Жыл бұрын

I went here as a birthday gift to myself this past year and it was such a treat! You can listen to an audio narration that guides you through time and describes the history of the items on each table. Very very interesting!

@silva352 Жыл бұрын

This was fascinating to see.........I kind of want to see Adam attempt to bind a book from start to finish in his shop now.

@TheDGAF06 Жыл бұрын

It’s an incredibly intricate thing to do. Lots of simple small things you have to get right. It’s an unfortunately dying skill.

@_wanderingrocks_ Жыл бұрын

I’d be more than happy to show him. It’s definitely something that could be done in a day, at least for a simple flat back hard cover book.

@Blazer02LS Жыл бұрын

Nerdforge just did a huge book using many of these methods.

@MrVeps1 Жыл бұрын

@@Blazer02LS Yeah, Nerdforged actually has a lot of bookbinding videos, even rebinding newer books in gorgeous, embossed leather covers.

@haydnmalyon7690 Жыл бұрын

This is all incredibly fascinating! I had never even considered the existence of a "book sewing machine". Thank you both for this lovely walkthrough.

@johnrogers1251 10 ай бұрын

This is another museum I could spend *hours* in marveling and admiring the craftsmanship and skills of book binding. The docent was excellent, and I could see myself having an extended conversation with her, given the chance.

@pumirya Жыл бұрын

It’s amazing to see how not just books, but other things are made in the past, and how much effort it took. So many things come to us so easily these days that I think it’s hard to appreciate sometimes how difficult it was to make some things in the past. Thanks for the video and keep up the good work.

@kiltedsasquatch3693 Жыл бұрын

Agreed. What amazes me is how engrained people are to just run to the big box store to buy something. I look for and accept new challenges to make things, which also develops new skills. You have to know your limits but expand them too.

@catatonicbug7522 Жыл бұрын

It's still difficult to make things well. There is a saying, "You can have it done well, fast, or cheap. Pick 2." True artistry takes time and is very expensive, but our consumerist culture has lost appreciation for it, so we'd rather buy it cheap and replace it.

@kiltedsasquatch3693 Жыл бұрын

@@catatonicbug7522 There is, indeed, a level of chatoyancy that can only be achieved with hand crafted items.

@KoKagi Жыл бұрын

Just finished a book history class in my library program. Where was this video when we were going over book binding in the early 1900's!?!? Love it.

@minijms1 Жыл бұрын

Retired printer here, I went through the whole process, started off as a hot metal compositor, ended up a proper printer. Go and see how a modern day newspaper press works and admire tensions and timing. Mind blown.

@briansavage932 Жыл бұрын

This should be it's own show alltogether. I'd binge watch these like crazy. Adam visiting passionate people in their own element.

@BlackCatBritt Жыл бұрын

As both a book-lover and a graphic designer, this video was endlessly fascinating. Kudos to the wonderful conversation with Madeline, who really knows her stuff and communicated it in such an understandable way.

@modularcuriosity Жыл бұрын

What an interesting person. And how wonderful is it to see somebody speaking about their passion? I really enjoyed this.

@3nertia Жыл бұрын

I love that Adam always find the other nerd like him on any given subject and then they just go to town

@evilshrimpy Жыл бұрын

Whilst mechanical bookbinding in several forms is now the norm, hand-binding for short runs and individualized gifts is still alive and well! I have worked in a print-shop where a modern-day industrialized version of that guillotine cutter was used, as workmanlike a machine as anything you might see in Adam's shop, and well-loved, it operated much like the lever-powered version demonstrated in this video. It had an electronically controlled backstop for careful alignment to within the millimeter, and was hydraulically powered, so that part was different. I will always remember the noise it made as it made to cut- it looked and sounded very much like it could take off every finger on your hand in a single stroke, which of course it could. It's lovely to see in operation the romantic old cast-iron version of a tool I knew so well and used so often.

@timmyangeltlc4888 Жыл бұрын

Thank you Adam. This vlog brought back memories the many happy hours I spent in high school helping our school librarian shelving, cataloging, checking in, and even repairing books that were damaged. I was even given credits towards graduation due to all of the hours I spent helping do the aforementioned duties as well as helping other students find things they needed and teaching elementary students beside the librarian.

@7DavesToDie Жыл бұрын

This honestly reminded me of an old Mr Rogers segment, where he loaded the picture frame with small rolls of film. There were so many cool places he went to and honestly was probably the first variation of a “how it’s made” on tv.

@Cobra8719 Жыл бұрын

This is truly one of my favorite episodes. The amount of detail and knowledge is astounding. Anyone born before the 2000’s should have a great appreciation for what value books really hold. The internet has really spoiled what was once one of the very few ways to gain knowledge; print on paper.

@crumpred805 Жыл бұрын

For those of us who had graphic arts class (up to the late the seventies), we know the real meaning of "cut & paste". We also bound books, tin & type set, film developing, silkscreening and so on. Life is easier today, but very expensive!

@johnrogers1251 10 ай бұрын

"cut & paste" - yes, indeed! I went to a vocational high school to study Graphic Arts / Printing, and did some "paste-ups" to produce the "flat" that would then be photographed to be used to make a printing plate for an offset press. Thanks for the trip down memory lane. :)

@erlandodk Жыл бұрын

I simply love knowledgable people talking with such enthusiasm about what is clearly a passion. Thank you, Madeleine.

@sundaynightdrunk Жыл бұрын

Honestly, this is one of the very best channels on all of youtube. Very few channels have me interested in every single video they put out, but somehow I never miss one. Keep doing what you do.

@constpegasus Жыл бұрын

I thoroughly enjoyed this. A competitor in the top 10 best videos yet.

@DamienWise Жыл бұрын

What an amazing series of practical demonstrations! Big thanks to Madeline at the American Bookbinders Museum in San Francisco for the wonderful walk through history. You can tell she loves her job by how excited and hands-on she gets. And her earrings!

@kiltedsasquatch3693 Жыл бұрын

Perfect timing... I just finished building a solid Black Walnut Book Press.

@scottmantooth8785 Жыл бұрын

*i truly appreciate well made and crafted objects and a well made book is a work of art unto itself*

@dowdayjing8442 Жыл бұрын

I wish this video were even longer! So fascinating!

@alhutchison1535 Жыл бұрын

One of the best Adam Savage 'field trips' I've seen.

@Ice_Karma Жыл бұрын

13:52 I love the exchange over 'skive'.

@hakonsoreide Жыл бұрын

As a small-time collector of books, this was truly a fascinating journey into some of the evolution of bookbinding in the 19th Century. Wonderful.

@melaniecombs Жыл бұрын

This is such a fascinating look into the history of bookmaking. It's amazing to see how much effort and skill went into creating each individual page by hand.

@MonkeyJedi99 Жыл бұрын

I have two friends who run a rare book store, and the husband is a bookbinder who does repairs when customers request them. He has done everything from cleaning up a book to completely rebinding the whole thing as if it was being built the first time.

@Achenar15 Жыл бұрын

I would love to see some more content on this subject, that was so interesting!

@sonicfreak04 Жыл бұрын

I visited Wyvern Bindery back in 2018 (guys who made the prop books for the harry potter series as well as other films and tv shows) and I gotta say it was an amazing experience seeing them hot press gold foil onto the book covers as well as seeing them binding the books.

@nathkrupa3463 Жыл бұрын

Great collection Adam sir you are fantastic Awesome collecters

@TheTuubster Жыл бұрын

I just recently bought an old lexica off eBay printed in the 1830s. I was surprised how well the books were manufactured. How convenient that this video now gives the info how they made them.

@DrRockter5150 Жыл бұрын

Adam, I've been watching a fantastic channel that shows that binding of books from start to finish. It's called "Four Keys Book Arts". He uses the same tools as shown here. It's so cool to see the craftsmanship used and needed to make something as beautiful as a hand-bound book from long ago.

@paulgar8 Жыл бұрын

The Docent is AMAZING - Thanks to her and Adam for a fantastic amount of information.

@johnc6809 Жыл бұрын

Adam I remember my junior high shop class in San Lorenzo. We learned to make a book! This was in 1970! We sewed the the pages. Trimmed them on the giant chopper thing. Glued the cardboard to the seized fabric and set the pages into the covers. Creased the spine. I now marvel at the amount of cool things we built in school that just isn’t done anymore. Such a shame. I’m 64 and feeling old!

@kevinbreckenridge6729 Жыл бұрын

This may be the best museum tour you've done so far.

@danondler8808 Жыл бұрын

Adam, Thank you for this video. Madeline is a treasure. I feel excited to have learned something I've taken for granted and never realized how much technology was involved so long ago. Interesting that, as so many things, as technology can improve the speed of making the quality diminishes. Yet that lower quality provided a huge benefit for providing more people something they otherwise couldn't benefit from. Enlightening.

@adamminister7123 Жыл бұрын

Oh wow. So much thought and effort went into the how and why. I never would have guessed that everything was actually done that way for a specific reason. The reasoning behind gilded edges was fascinating.

@AfroMyrdal 7 ай бұрын

I did not expect this video to be as enthralling and educational as it was! I LOVE her! She's an absolute natural and a treasure! ❤

@tau3457 Жыл бұрын

My first question was going to be 'what is your oldest book Adam?' Mine is a tattered Mrs Beaton's book of household management. Passed down from my great x3 grandmother from the 1860s. It was like a household instruction manual that was given to newly married daughters and taught them how to do every single thing necessary from posture, to gardening, to kids, husband(ry) etc.

@dambaek. Жыл бұрын

After watching this I watched the 1981 "Hands: A Dublin Bookbinder" and enjoyed understanding the process thanks to this video and seeing the skills in serious use.

@Fallub Жыл бұрын

What a great and enthusiastic woman. I really loved the stories.

@diegooland1261 Жыл бұрын

I'm in love!!! As a novice book binder, this is awesome. I hear paste was also used because the amount of liquid used to make the paste could be adjusted depending on the temperature and humidity, giving better control over how it dried. And a fragrance could be added, like clove to give it a pleasant smell and perhaps repel bugs. And yes, sewing signatures together is a very special skill.

@anonymes2884 Жыл бұрын

Two of my favourite things - books and listening to someone that knows and loves their subject.

@Brandon-zo9ly Жыл бұрын

The excitement, and critical eye of a maker that Adam brings to this videos is really what makes them special.

@danberger4593 Жыл бұрын

Adam thank you so much for this tour, it brought back great memories. Back in another century I did some hand binding, and I used a guillotine trimmer much like the one you saw (safer because it was not motorized! ). For the full story on Gutenberg, I highly recommend the Gutenberg Museum in Mainz, Germany.

@BlackOakBindery Жыл бұрын

"Bookbinding was a badly paid profession." Still is! 😂 Signed, A bookbinder But seriously, as a professional bookbinder, this makes me very happy to see. I'm going to be visiting that museum this fall and I can't wait!

@RealfishingNL 10 ай бұрын

That woman is great. Explains everything in a nice way. She awnsers all adams questions. Knows her numbers and the awnsers to the questions and even let adam feel some items. Great museum employe👍👍👍👍

@Rr0gu3_5uture Жыл бұрын

Man, I love old books. Two of the fave I own are a gold gilded Complete Works of Robert Burns from 1876, and a rather battered atlas from 1764. The atlas is so detailed, that it lists and names a whole bunch of old local landmarks in and around Scotland that even my town museum were unaware of.

@artpotato9838 Жыл бұрын

THIS IS SO COOOL!! Paper making and book binding was one of my covid crafts. SO COOOL ADAM AND TEAM thank you for sharing!!

@lightblue8818 Жыл бұрын

Really interesting to watch! Did not think about the ridges at all before seeing this, "must be design choice to make it look better or easier to hold". Little did I know haha.

@marvinhensbergen1515 11 ай бұрын

I really hope Adams workshop and all his stuff gets preserved forever. If I would ever go to the USA, a visit to his museum would be my number 1 priority.

@roguecthulhu6002 Жыл бұрын

Loved this! I taught myself bookbinding in college (instead of doing my homework). Books will never die out because it is the only form of recording information that does not need a device to decode.

@AllanCav Жыл бұрын

Safe to say Adam’s favourite word at the moment is ‘iterative’! Superb video, how generous with her knowledge and clear in her explanations. I learned several new things.

@veganconservative1109 Жыл бұрын

I can't believe I grew up my entire life from well before I even learned to read LOVING books... and never thought to question how they were put together and why. This was amazing.

@mediocrefunkybeat Жыл бұрын

This is absolutely brilliant and the development of the process is such an archetypical example of industrialisation. Thank you for this, it's truly excellent.

@jeremydonovan8350 Жыл бұрын

Speaking of books and museums, Internet Archive is under attack from publishers right now, it would be fantastic to see a video in support of them!

@cbjewelz Жыл бұрын

Such a cool video. I love when the same tools are used across different mediums, e.g. the scraper and plough from woodworking

@mikeball9715 Жыл бұрын

I have an interesting book tale myself! I inherited a bunch of books, mainly Alistair Maclean and Ian Fleming paperbacks, from my grandpa when he passed away. So I was looking for one of my aviation history books one day when I pulled out a book I don't remember organizing or putting away. It's called Our Young Areoplane Scouts In England by Horace Porter. I opened up the cover and I see a handwritten note "Xmas 1918" My eyes went bug eyed. Then I looked up the book itself, and it came out in 1916. To this day, it's the oldest book I own and have read! Thanks for filming this. I have no doubt mine was made the same way!

@sittingstill3578 8 ай бұрын

I imagine this would be a great introduction to bookbinding. Thanks for sharing the tour! I noticed several great demonstrations by master bookbinders in the suggested videos. A few years ago I got into paper marbling for work and ended up heading through book binding all the way to masters programs in book preservation from Oxford. Same year I made a comment on a video about wanting to tour German bakeries some day which lead to 6 months of behind the scenes, daily routines of German bakeries. I still want to taste the real thing though and learn to really make it.

@litlclutch Жыл бұрын

Those machines were beautiful. I've dabbled with hand stitching binding as a bit of a hobby but WOW those machines are SO cool. The machines and the books they made could be impressively beautiful.

@StefanPetter Жыл бұрын

Amazing video! Immediately got triggered by the Dutch text on the wall @1:50 lol. In the city of Meppel in The Netherlands, we have a "drukkerijmuseum" (printing house? museum). Visited that one loads of times! They have amazing activities like making your own paper :) This video brings back good memories.

@paulkinzer7661 Жыл бұрын

Wow! You folks at Tested are so good at finding knowledgeable and charismatic people with amazing expertise in very specific fields of making. NASA, armor, and now bookbinding. Other examples, too. But these stick out to me particularly. Each of these folks could be hosts of their own series of compelling videos. I hope we hear more from Madeline (Sp?).

@ryanstewart116 Жыл бұрын

While I was institutionalized, I used to make blank books for people so this fascinating. Hoping to make some handmade journals now. Learning how to cut wooden threads has been fun.

@BearbearbearbearbearbearRarrrr Жыл бұрын

LOVE this - more please? (Savage book of the week?)

@jennypaxton8159 Жыл бұрын

And here I am, taking PDFs, combining them, printing them out into signatures, and binding them! The cyclicity pleases me greatly.

@Rebar77_real Жыл бұрын

Everybody's vocabulary got a good workout today! Cool stuff!

@bastiancook4821 Жыл бұрын

I work as a commercial bookbinder currently and we still have one of the cast iron guillotines in the shop. Gorgeous piece of equipment. We still use it on occasion.

@momentsPY Жыл бұрын

WOW, this Lady is amazing. The amount of knowledge she shows about this art is incredible. Very nice visit to that fantastic place. Greetings from Paraguay.

@davidovereem9412 Жыл бұрын

Again I find this interesting, and learn so much. My mom has a degree in Library Science and part of what she had to do was carefully take a book apart and then learn how to sew it back together.

@thaywizgwar8238 Жыл бұрын

I was fascinated each and every minute of this video; also wonderful to see Adam just as fascinated.

@mydoggylives 10 ай бұрын

Just amazing! Loved every minute of it and I wish it were longer!

@coreywelch Жыл бұрын

It's neat seeing woodworking tools used in this process.

@MorbinNecrim86 Жыл бұрын

Always loved books, and this is awesome to watch.

@Freelancer221 Жыл бұрын

It's basically a cliché by now but i truly think that the decision to write information down and to multiply the writing and to make it accessible and spread over decades and centuries to come so that others could learn from it is the single most important and beautiful and noble thing we as a species did and continue to do. And all the works of fiction which make us weep and laugh and make us feel all of the feelings just because someone had an idea and wrote it down and someone else made books of it to publish. Oh, all the places I went to in my book reading fueled imagination. Thanks Tested for the best half hour of learning and being entertained in a long time. This was beautiful.

@tastyneck Жыл бұрын

That museum is literally next door to my old office. I always wanted to go in (though, IIRC, you have to book a tour (pun unintended) and don't just walk-in). Very cool that I get to experience it via this video.

@flynn3649 Жыл бұрын

You should visit and let her know you've seen the video from Adam Savage, and that you appreciate her perspective/passion. A lot of curators and educators love hearing that their work is being seen and appreciated, even if you don't have the time for a full tour.

@tastyneck Жыл бұрын

@@flynn3649 that's actually a great idea. my company got bought and I got let go, so I'm not anywhere near there anymore. but TF i got going on with no job that I cant just train it downtown to just say I appreciate them.

@MadeleineRobins-mn2eh Жыл бұрын

@@tastyneck In fact, you don't have to book a tour in advance. These days (post-covid) we offer self-guided/audio tours, chock full of even more information and context about this stuff. We'd love to have you visit!

@tastyneck Жыл бұрын

@@MadeleineRobins-mn2eh Thank you for the info!

@CaptainMarvelsSon Жыл бұрын

That was fascinating! It helped to have someone well versed in the craft who also spoke well and did not constantly mumble over her words.

@orenatostefani 5 ай бұрын

“the whole point of a book is to protect the information inside it.” - so simple yet so profound; That made the video for me. Keep rocking Adam 👊🏼🙏🏼💜

@rockyetsx70 Жыл бұрын

There's a Norwegian makers KZfaq channel called Nerdforge, and Martina is constantly generating fantasy books using all those traditional techniques. It is an amazing process to watch.

@kropjesla01 Жыл бұрын

I did not expect this video to be this interesting. Wonderfull to hear Madelyn speak with such passion. She's wonderfull Thank you for this Video!

@Zorndar83 Жыл бұрын

I made several books already, most notably a photobook as a present for my mother with single page signatures so it lays completly flat, "bound" in leather. Took ages to makes but the smile on her face was reward enough. I made a couple more notebooks later, it's a handy skill if you know someone who really likes taking notes ...

@michaelpichette4143 Жыл бұрын

When Adam talks about the process of one improvement building on the last it makes me think of a phase I heard in a YT lecture about guitar pedals. “Each new invention is caused by the adjacent possible.” Someone looks at an emerging technology and pushes into an adjacent possible advancement. This furthering the cycle of development.

@pony3284 Жыл бұрын

So glad I tuned in for this!!

@adelheidsnel5171 Жыл бұрын

Fantastic humorous and passionate curator!!!!!

@time2fly2124 Жыл бұрын

i used to work in a magazine/catalog printing factory for about 9 years working in the finishing department, working on a "saddle stitcher", around the 20:00 mark is basically what they still do today, they literally "stitch" the books together with metal staples, individually cut from a long spool, much faster than the 1880s though :) some machines can push 25,000 books per hour.

@Nott_Vermeen Жыл бұрын

I love watching Adam’s first encounter with tools.

@dizzzy12 Жыл бұрын

Incredible documentary piece Adam. Super enjoyable to watch someone equal parts knowledgeable and passionate talk about something we all take for granted