I Restored This Antique Victorian Book | 1873 Saint Patrick’s Manual ASMR

This Saint Patrick's Manual was gifted to me by the daughter of a book collector. It belonged to a Harrison Colton from Lockport, New York and it was dated 1883. This video is the culmination of a three part series of my work to conserve this unique victorian Catholic prayer book for my personal collection.

00:31 - Straightening the brass
04:09 - Cutting the marbled paper for endpages
05:40 - Surgery
06:52 - Why marbled paper?
08:28 - He performs chiropractic work on a book
12:28 - The next morning...
14:00 - Making the hollow
23:05 - My new leather weights
25:21 - Tucking in the inner hinge
31:40 - Monologue on confidence
35:28 - Gluing down the original spine
36:56 - Making the repair invisible with toned paper
38:00 - The grand reveal!

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