Rare Books: Online Resources

Making a Medieval Book (before Printing) 

The Getty Museum (6:19)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nuNfdHNTv9o 

Making Moveable Type

Typefounding process in four parts

1. Punchcutting (7:15): 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eExllUeGtvc

2. Hardening Punches & Striking Matrices (5:15): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QyiCPzERIGA

3. Casting Type (3:31): 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WgHst9Amhio

4. Dressing Type (4:37): 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LiJXXzx9yk0

Teaching the Punch-Matrix System with 3D Printed Teaching Tools

https://www.3dhotbed.info/punchmatrixsystem

Casting & Setting Movable Type

https://www.3dhotbed.info/settingtype

Making the Substrate for Printing: Paper

Chancery Papermaking

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-PmfdV_cZU

Chancery paper by hand 2000 sheets in a day

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bggttPftmVs

Western Papermaking and the History of Paper:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPqjLzAnSIM

Japanese paper making (mino washi)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCLcFnTc3z4

Nepalese paper making: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5Pbbu6rMR4

Papyrus making as a substrate for writing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCR8n7qS43w      

Making Parchment

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oR5nYuvxicw 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4IBoVUC8zk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5TRh0H9qf4o

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjqeZMe3f4c

Printing

Printing on a [replica] Common Press

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhurdry4WMI

An Introduction to Letterpress

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmg7yCEphrA

Upside Down, Left to Right: A Letterpress Film

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6RqWe1bFpM

 The Machine that Made Us 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQ88yC35NjI

Introduction to Printing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNm048hspj8

The Gutenberg Press

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbV7Y8NddNg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbV7Y8NddNg

Printing on an Albion Iron Handpress

[Amelia Fontanel, an Associate Curator at the RIT Cary Graphic Arts Collection] (9:03) 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ofMJ6NcEM58

Zylographic Printing of Tibetan Sutras

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOO6PWPZYzQ

Hot Metal Typesetting

The Monotype Keyboard and Caster

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8jP91XowAE

Linotype and the Typesetting Race

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5n5JQrN8qx4

Illustration

Making a Woodcut and Printing A Deck of Cards

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mgCYovlFRNY

Using a Rolling Press to Print from Intaglio Plates (engravings or etchings)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0x9QwS5GZE

The Printed Line – an Introduction to Printmaking Techniques

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYJUEmEvfZw

Woodblock carving: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Z9lU8HTIdg

Woodblock carving (Japanese style):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ucdcFCxkvTI

Multicolor Japanese Printing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8ma5q9-lA0

How to Make a Wood Engraving

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKmArlrjxLI

On Thomas Bewick, Pioneering C19 English Wood Engraver

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2drmxm0wWo

Lithography Process: “Pressure + Ink”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUXDltQfqSA

Photogravure 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6iiWiJ8OZY

Book Binding 

Paper Marbling

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWq1xkvAfdY

The Process of Bookbinding

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DtJK_fcrLlY

Sewn Cord Bookbinding (Western):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBd67qQy96k&t=2s

Overview

The Making of a Renaissance Book

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHprwjOJIn8

The Anatomy of a Book: Format in the Hand Press Period

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Efxddk09p0g