Metamorphosen & Träume
Mezzotinta
Excellent short film on creating a mezzotint print by Dalibor Smutný.
Digitization of the Vatican Library
For the past seven years the Vatican Library has been working on a Digitization Project with the aim of preservation of it’s collection of invaluable manuscripts as well as making them publicly available. From the 80000 codices, mostly from Middle Age and Humanistic Period, many are already available online.
Vatican Manuscripts
Fore-edge Painting
See the painting hidden in the gilt edges of the pages of the book!! It’s called fore-edge painting, and this book is one of several in Cornell University Library – Rare and Manuscript Collections.
200 Hundred Years Old Japanese “Karakuri”
Hideki Higashino and his Karakuri
The Art of Making a Book
Traditional creation of books.
Fore Edge Book Painting of 19th Century Edition “Paradise Lost”
The Craft of Making Shoes
A fascinating look at the traditional shoe-making.