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Brilliant. Masterful. Thank you.

If he's dealing with that old of a book, and he's a genuine, trained paper conservator, why isn't he wearing gloves? Just askin'

Whoever edited this video shure ain't no "master of his craft". The image is completely washed out. A twelve year older with a free software could have made a more presentable video. 😐

I meam cool process and great work, but the cover looks like shit

Please can you put music in these videos so I don’t gotta listen to your heavy breathing

Crappy fake voiceover

As ever, great skill makes the process look easy. As ever, great ignorance in commenting is easy.

I didn't catch - was anything used to prevent the regrowing of the mold. This fangue is very tricky, few spores left and we are gone south.

Interesting video. When I was in high school, back in the stone age, my job was to repair and recover badly damaged library books, but nothing even close to this extent.

It seems like the creation of the wheat paste should be a process that is streamlined. That was a big waste of the restorer’s time 😬

The cleaning process is not shown. Was it cleaned on the front?

I am so glad to have found your site! My daughter bought a very nice old painting by a Scottish painter . She picked it up today from the dealers , took it home, dropped it, tried to catch it mid air and put her fingers through it. She is distraught. I am an artist and I promised her I would try to restore it. I am having second thoughts after seeing your video! I am sure we cannot afford to have it restored professionally, but your video will certainly help me do a better job now. Thank you!

paper layer crunching

$100k binding for a million dollar antique text. What amazing technique and artistic skill!

I would think you would wear gloves to prevent body oils from soiling the print.

A labor of love....Congratulations for breathing new life into a discarded work of Art...❤

He reminds me a japanese gardener...All these people have a special place in heaven!

Any man who can look at that wire loom and not run in absolute terror is a wizard in my book. I would sit with it for hours frozen, not knowing where to start.

Clever, but the image itself is pretty unremarkable

Not exactly Guernica. 😂

I'm two and a half minutes in and just find it funny how he's saying gentle, delicately, carefully, cautiously, while the person is like, going to town on that picture.

Wow, it's so bizarre to see a machete with a mirror shine to it - it's probably the first time that blade's ever been polished! Glad people choose to give new life to work tools made to be ultimately disposable and cheap.

LASCIA PERDERE E MANDA AGLI UFFIZI

Sometimes, Picasso, is just plain funny. these are 😂🌷🌱

Scraps? I think you meant scrapes, AI voice.

This a beautiful piece of art - the depth of color. the composition, and the detail are beauteous. 16:17 But ??? - what is he doing? what is he using and why? i can watch my finger typing, but there’s absolutely no way i can understand why and how it works, unless i’m taught or do dissection myself. i don’t think about it, but i do know about the muscles, ligaments, how the bones are articulated, the nerves, the blood vessels, etc. i’d be so nervous if i didn’t know WHY?! you must have something like this in your life - how a car works, how knitting 🧶 works or stitches in sewing, the rules of baseball or soccer!! it’s darn discouraging!! thank you for a good beginning in the restoration process. :) 🗺️

So - how the heck do these immersion washed work? why dies the water. color not get destroyed. this is not Julian at work here!!!!!! it’s just frustrating! and leaves me more unsatisfied than content and relieved that the piece is better than it was. i’m beginning to just speed through these for explanations and results. I’m coming, Julian. i can’t stand this any more!! thanks for the effort though. the videographer is very good as are the restorers. 🌿🌱

The years of practice and patiance required to hone this skill is rare in professions these days. Incredible how this complicated process was discovered ..amazing !.

As I see it doing the cutting in situ is a bit scary, as any mistake may damage the parts next to the work piece, and waste the work that has been done at the same time.

In fact, it is not exactly a restoration of the book but a luxury binding, as the pages cannot be restored.

Are you a luthier? I’m a former very bad fiddle player and even I’d never let anyone but a professional luthier restore my violin.

What idiot came up with the inscriptions that the tool is clattering and cloth rustling and other things like that... But when a man farts, it will be written as well?? If it's because of deaf people, what the hell, let them know if they don't know this. These stupid subtitles only distract from the interesting display of pinball restoration.

Amazing!!!!

Satisfying

Paper, high quality papers -- amazing material, more durable than might be expected. 👍 Fine video.

I do believe the essence of the video is to show you how the restoration process is done. Not why it is done. But some people don’t understand the difference between daylight and dark.

Fantastic

Why wasnt the body beneath the peg also be cleaned? And how about adjusting sound post?

Please excuse my ignorance; but, I'm confused about some aspects of this restoration video & absolutely flabbergasted at the ingenuity of how they accomplished other methods of repair. Before watching this video, I'd never seen or even heard of a smoke sponge, crepe erasers or the way they went about patching holes & tears in the canvas of an oil painting. I'd heard or read about various methods that could be used to clean old oil paintings - some of which made absolutely no logical sense. I'd never realized how a decent patch could be created & applied in such a meticulous way as not to be obvious. That entire process was absolutely fascinating. However, I was disappointed that this particular video did not go into detail as to the various steps & materials used like was done in the video Masters of Craft did for restoring a print. As for the aspects of the video that confused me: 1.) I've always thought restoring an oil painting included cleaning it. Not the type of cleaning shown here; although, I found the cleaning that was done extremely interesting. What I mean was I thought the old varnish would be removed because even being cleaned with smoke erasers & other agents, the decades/centuries of being exposed to smoke, dust, grim, dirt, etc, would have permeated the varnish - gotten into the cracks & crevices - causing it to become discolored & therefore blocking the vividness of the original colors that made up the oil painting. It was even stated in the video that the previous restoration attempts were done incorrectly because the original varnish was painted over. The varnish itself had cracked with age, which to my way of thinking posed an additional concern. Such cracks left the underlying pigments exposed, to the very same elements which lead to the discoloration/dulling of the varnish Surely, the old varnish needed to be removed so the original colors of the painting could be viewed & any areas that had been exposed could be cleaned. I realize the spray coat of new lacquer/varnish would hold the underlying painting in place; I just don't understand why the old varnish wasn't removed. 2.) Why were they using what appeared to be water colors to recreate the areas where the original oil paint had once existed? Why not use oil paint? The old oil paint formulas can be recreated; so, why not do so & use the same medium used to create the painting in the first place? 3.) I was left wondering why the restoration process they used eliminated so much that could have served as way to evaluate the age of the oil painting as well as any means to provide a provenance for the painting, a.) They didn't reuse the original wooden stretcher; b.) They covered the back of the original painting with new linen in such a way the original canvass cannot now be accessed eliminating one method of dating the painting based on the linen on which it was painted c,) They stapled the new linen backing to the new wooden stretcher eliminating any easy way to view the back of the painting & use that information to date the painting based on the age of the original wooden stretcher I suppose the painting isn't actually considered valuable; so, there was no reason for them to restore the oil painting in such a way that it could be verified as being as old as it was stated in the video to be.

Was this never cleaned?!

New muscle blocks are shaped . . yeah, that's because we saw this person hack away at this part of the wood and destroy it before separating the legs off . .

Amazing! He is so very talented and skilled!

Well now

MEIN GOT!!!!!! Ah I'm ITALIAN

È una restaurazione PARZIALE e quindi fatta MALE .andava ripulito anche il colore, tolto il vecchio, oltre che riparati gli strappi ..... MANDATE AGLI UFFIZI lo sapranno ripulire meglio di come avete fatto voi 1 e 2 GESSO DI BOLOGNA IT READ GE LIKE GE RMANY..... RIGHT?

Maravillosa.

I really wish you highlighted the name of the person who did this amazing restoration. They have put a part of themselves into this artwork while leaving almost no visible trace. Give credit where credit is due.

Cool.

Wait...what was the point of removing the artwork completely? It looked pretty good as it was