More Links on Printing, Bookmaking, Printmaking

 More Links on Printing, Bookmaking, Printmaking

Some of these links will be duplicated from the last list because there is some carryover (certain videos illustrate both handpress-era and modern practices). I'll continue to add resources to this as I find them, but wanted to get these to you in advance of your visit next week (Oct. 13). 

Short Videos On the Letterpress revival

Short Letterpress Documentary (Firefly Letterpress): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iv69kB_e9KY

Upside Down, Left to Right: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6RqWe1bFpM
Locking up lead type in chase for printing:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OuRMunlMULI
(Another short letterpress video (University of Plymouth)

Ink & Paper :  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_1UsFf3IcU - This one is very tedious with bad sound but shows how a single page is locked up in a chase using furniture and quoins.

Longer documentaries:

Proceed and Be Bold! (Amos Paul Kennedy Jr., Detroit): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i251DDffUzY

Educational Films on 20^th C. processes

Typesetting: Linotype – 1960 Printing Educational Documentary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zoP6dheF8zc

Oxford University Press and the Making of a Book: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sW7wsXuw2cI. Pay Attention to these sections

• Monotype composing machines – 4:55
• Stereotyping – 6:30
• Steam-Powered Press  (printing from type) - 8:35
• Offset Lithographic Printing (in 64mo) - 8:07
• Modern binding (by machine and by hand - notice how women aren't operating any binding machinery - only sewing machines!) - 9:25
• Machine-sewn gatherings - 11:55
• Gilding the edges of the text block - 12:36
• Machine made case-bindings - 13:47

Newspaper Printing (Letterpress) "From Trees to Tribunes" Part 3 1931 Chicago Tribune: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_Y95phLnsM (includes Photolithography, stereotyping)

Making Books (1947 Encyclopedia Britannica Film). (This video is for children.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJbCuL3XcS8

Videos on Printmaking Processes:
Italglio engraving/etching: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNKn4PORGBI

Basic Stone Lithography: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHw5_1Hopsc

Stone Lithography at an Edinburgh Printmaker: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E38B0swb4vo

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

Other Resources
Gaskell Wiki http://whitneyannetrettien.com/whiki/index.php?title=Gaskell_1972. I have found this wiki (developed by Dr. Whitney Trettien doc program) very helpful in isolated the basic premise of Gaskell.