The more you learn about the man and his works the more impressed you inevitably are .

Blake was so radical on so many levels and so ahead of his time.

Anyone else absolutely loving the sound design of this video?

A wonderful production to watch. Very nice ambient music. My thanks to the production and as always, the spiritual transportation that William Blake will provide for the rest of my life.

I loved Blake from childhood…both his poetry and his art…I spent hours enjoying and studying it.

Spent 30 years as a master pressman; the single hardest thing to accomplish is getting the paper to feed consistently into the press

I especially love what was said in that final minute... inspirational man

I had no idea he was also a gifted printer…beautiful work.

A lovely tribute to Blake and his process.

Blake was an absolute madman, it would take me a year to do poorly what he could do perfectly in a week

what an extraordinary video. whodathunk... william blake basically founded "desktop publishing". and the bit about how he was no shelley or keats reclining back with a feather quill pen but that he was a MECHANIC, i think that really resonates with a lot of us who walk the line between art and technology. awesome to see how an independent creator did it when the highest tech afforded to him was blocking varnish and leather ink blot. love this video. thank you!

Absolutely incredible at the time the engravings were made and now using the same techniques. Bravo

This was entrancing to watch.

Wonderful demonstration of Blake's printing process - Thank you!

...and my opinion about authors, books, book craftsmen, libraries and the book civilisation in general is only being justified through this video. 8 minutes of bliss for any William Blake and / or book lover! All thumbs up for the British Library and Michael Phillips who demonstrated this printing process in such a beautiful way! ❤💓💖❤💓💖❤📚

Thank you for such a beautiful video. I’ve learned something new about Blake. I just admire him more.

An artful blend of the narrative and the background music. Not an easy task. This video is the product of some very skilled production. Kudos.

Thank you for this video! I've always been fascinated by Blake's poetry and art and have always wondered how he made those wonderful pages.

Beautiful and amazing and he was a genius in art and creations!!! Thank you for this video!!

interesting ! I am a printmaker and have experimented the "blake method" in writing texts on an oily paper that I then reverse on the plate and make a deep etch of.

Thank you. I needed to know his studio was his single room. It gives me hope for my own art, in spite of the fact that all of my art is worthless.

I did quite a lot of printmaking during my years at art school: it is indeed a difficult thing to get a consistent quality over a run of prints. Now, as I gather from the video, Blake drew and wrote *directly* on the plate, using the etching ground as one would use ink? I recollect a relief-etching process devised by Leonardo da Vinci, which provided greater detail than the woodcuts then in use - something like the 'sugar-lift' technique I learned in class, where you put the lift layer on first, scratch the design in with a stylus, lay the ground over that, then soak off the rest of the ground before the acid bath. The scratched areas retain their ground, while the rest is etched away...

A salient feature that is illustrated here is that he was able to get multiple prints from one inking by increasing the pressure on the press. Also, the dauber with a very light coating of ink is used. The etching was pretty shallow and it is easy to get ink into the recesses if you aren't patient, working slowly and carefully as Phillips did and Blake must have done. Great scholarship by Michael Phillips.

Man i miss doing print making. Was one of my favorite classes

Watching you on Netflix really opened me up to whole field niche expertises

I don't want that to end. It was excellent.

Excellent video- hope you post more.

Thank you. I have always loved Blake.

What a wonderful video, thank you.

Beautifully presented

Thank you for this. Im just finishing his complete works. He seemed to loathe straight lines. These days some scientifically forward individual s are saying there are no straight lines in nature. Blake was a true Visionary ❤

One of the beat classes I took in college was print making. I wish I had access to all of the materials to do this again.

Brilliant. Very interesting and creative.

Beautiful video, thank you.

Fascinating video. I became interesting in printmaking after visiting an exhibit on ukiyo-e. These copper prints are very beautiful. I would love to take a class and learn this technique.

totally amazing

I love this video. I even love the music in it!

16th century copper engraving would be worth its own story

great video ! thank you .

I love William Blake's work very.

Visionary poet and artist. Genius.

This is so amazing!!!

Beautiful technique

Fantastic !

Wonderful and beautiful; thanks

Very interesting!

Outstanding...

I had the opportunity to see a few of Rembrandt’s prints at the Grunwald Museum at U.C.L.A. The prints were about the same size as Blake’s . . . the difference was Rembrandt’s prints were intaglio where Blake’s are flat bitten relief prints. Nice video. 😘

It really puts some of his prophetic poems into perspective, when he speaks about the furnaces of the creator Los, he probably got really hot and sweaty turning that press all day.

Fascinating

Those presses are for printing intaglio, not relief. Relief plates would have been printed on a Gutenberg-style hand press.

sublime ! merci

Brilliant 💖

Amazing...👏

Excellent

William Blake is exactly who I need to become.

Beatificación!!❤

I love that press. I WANT that press.

I have so many questions.

wow!

☝Interesting. How many names are there for varnish? Acid resist, laquer, enamel, varnish, stop block, etc. Heard candle smoke was used also. Guess the letters where drawn on with the resist.

inspirational

Would appreciate an additional link to how it is engraved in the first place... or can I search any "copper engraving" demonstration that it would be the same?

that's magical

bravo

very atmospheric environment

Nice to see Eric Morecambe printing like William Blake.

Where do you find drivers for an inkjet printer this old? 🤔🤔

This Blake dude is kinda awesome

Amazing but how was the lettering, etc on the copper made? Or did i miss it?

I would have liked to have seen the print close up! It was all far shots

As a very experienced etcher, I would tell this printer to do himself a favor and use a more modern press: one with gear reduction. This would avoid the awkward halting and jittery pass under the roller, not to mention having to reach and stretch so widely just to roll it through.

William Blake 🎯👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼💎

Name of the background music please

Hell yeah

did he mention that this was extraordinary?

Would anyone know where I could purchase a used rolling press? Aka the large lumping, huge, wooden, heavy machine? In Toronto, Canada.

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i walked past william blakes old house all the time when I was a kid

What a shame that the typographer used inch marks in the text, not the proper apostrophe - poor

Parece o processo do mimiógrafo, aquela grande máquina que pressiona o papel contra a placa de cobre.

What a man ✅ awesome as

It's literally Ghutenberg printing process just with engravings instead of individual letters.

It looks easier than getting my Epson printer to work.

What etching press is this?

"Blake was an extraordinary individual when it came to his thinking..." I should say so.

why this pop up when I'm tryna do some assignments to get my grade up before the quarter ends.. I have an A in art, I'm okay 😟

Still cant put on a screen protector without the bubbles

Everything I've seen of Blake's prints were very colorful. Is this guy only showing part of the process?

You don't seem to credit whoever is narrating this documentary or doing the work (presumably the same person).

I'm always haunted by the commission issued, by a plantation owner from where it nowadays would be Suriname, to Blake, of the image of a slave being hung by a hook on his ribs

I must reactivate my press and try this ...

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To see a World in a Grain of Sand And a Heaven in a Wild Flower Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand And Eternity in an hour

It would be great if someone inboxed me now

Hi English class

The video suggests an “extraordinary” printing process but there there are no close shots of the final product …. very disappointing.

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