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.

@walrusassociation9317

3 жыл бұрын

He's still ahead of the current time.

@mareksicinski3726

2 жыл бұрын

in some ways te

Anyone else absolutely loving the sound design of this video?

@MK_2023.

2 жыл бұрын

It’s amazing.

@lechuga120

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah it was absolutely great

@ToshMatsum

2 жыл бұрын

I!

@lynnpehrson8826

2 жыл бұрын

Kinda reminds me of trent reznor's ambient stuff

@lynnpehrson8826

2 жыл бұрын

Or maybe vespertine era bjork, but an ambient equivalent.

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

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

@ozdigg9254

7 ай бұрын

same

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.

A lovely tribute to Blake and his process.

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!

@khaightlynn5295

Жыл бұрын

Totally! I wish trades and artisanship were more valued today.

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...

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

This was entrancing to watch.

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 ❤

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.

@user-cz2jo4nq2i

Ай бұрын

Your art is definitely not worthless :)

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

@rathodkaran6190

10 ай бұрын

Dont beat yourself, he spent a lifetime mastering it, you will too if you put there effort

...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! ❤💓💖❤💓💖❤📚

@jwc3o2

2 жыл бұрын

he shouldn't've been touching the print areas when he was turning them over near the end, though...

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

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

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.

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.

@BlakeinSussex

5 жыл бұрын

sounds interesting. do you have any video or photos of your work.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

Visionary poet and artist. Genius.

Thank you. I have always loved Blake.

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

What a wonderful video, thank you.

Excellent video- hope you post more.

Beautifully presented

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

16th century copper engraving would be worth its own story

Beautiful video, thank you.

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.

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. 😘

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.

I love William Blake's work very.

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

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.

totally amazing

great video ! thank you .

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

Fantastic !

Wonderful and beautiful; thanks

Beautiful technique

This is so amazing!!!

Very interesting!

Outstanding...

Brilliant 💖

William Blake is exactly who I need to become.

sublime ! merci

Fascinating

Amazing...👏

Beatificación!!❤

Excellent

☝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.

I love that press. I WANT that press.

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?

@ZKETCH42591

2 жыл бұрын

Much of the copper plate etching youll find today is probably going to use the wipe away method (With phone book/news print) of taking off the excess ink, and not being so light with the ink application unless needed. But the process with the engraving, acid etching, and running through the press is very much the same. Though i do have to give it to 17-18th century printing with the ink dampers/stamps? that has a lot of patience o-o

inspirational

very atmospheric environment

It looks easier than getting my Epson printer to work.

@ernestchadwell9069

10 ай бұрын

Are you kidding? In Blake's day your new seiver came scratched on slate and you had to enter every byte by hand.

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.

@BirdaeBlue

2 жыл бұрын

I think he’s trying to show the method that Blake used in his time

This Blake dude is kinda awesome

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

I have so many questions.

that's magical

wow!

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

Nice to see Eric Morecambe printing like William Blake.

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

@ernestchadwell9069

10 ай бұрын

You missed it. Masking varnish, copper plate, reverse writing, acid etch.

bravo

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

@downtime86stars17

2 жыл бұрын

Maybe check with college/university art departments?

@gander4872

2 жыл бұрын

You're probably going to have to make it yourself

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

William Blake 🎯👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼💎

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

@rsmith6366

2 жыл бұрын

A mimeograph has the image on a rotating drum that presses the image onto the paper.

Name of the background music please

did he mention that this was extraordinary?

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

Hell yeah

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

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

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

🔥🔥🔥

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

@rsmith6366

2 жыл бұрын

It has his name in the description.

♡

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

What etching press is this?

@rinber13

2 жыл бұрын

Just an old press that has been around for a century or so. At least it looks like the ones I've used before.

What a man ✅ awesome as

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

@dixonpinfold2582

2 жыл бұрын

It was not Blake's composition, but an engraving after Stedman, one in a series. In another a slave stares forlornly at his hand, which has been chopped off. That one haunts me.

Still cant put on a screen protector without the bubbles

❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️😘

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

@dixonpinfold2582

2 жыл бұрын

Yes, and even after our narrator dwelt rapturously on the wonderful mottled texture. We might as well read a book on it instead-it will have decent pictures.

😍😍

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 😟

Hi English class

@cameronirvine323

8 жыл бұрын

+StickguyMB Tell your English class I said hi

@giochiavassa5721

3 жыл бұрын

hi from Italy, this is for my homework lol

I must reactivate my press and try this ...

pozdrawiam widzuw

Did you mean "yellow ochre" rather than "yellow okra?"

@1pcfred

2 жыл бұрын

They were probably just hungry.

@dixonpinfold2582

2 жыл бұрын

I found the whole Thing mediokra. Arid & lifeless to the Point it left me a bit depress'd. -Ghost of Wm. Blake