Adam Savage's Indiana Jones Grail Diary Prop Replica!
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- Adam shares one of his oldest movie prop replicas: a recreation of Henry Jones's Grail Diary from Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade! As an example of his early prop replicating adventures, Adam's Grail Diary was a product of the printing technologies available to him at the time as well as scarce (and low resolution) reference material found from a variety of sources including DVD extras and behind-the-scenes art books. Adam walks us through how he made this replica and shows us the pages within!
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Did Adam ever remember what the "tell" was that he inserted into his replica?
@@AndyCies He wrote it down in his diary so he wouldn't have to remember (hope you catch this reference). 🙂
not that that helped much 😞
My mom helped me make a grail diary out of a little pocket address book when I was about 10 in 1992 or so. Still a fond memory. And it looked the part! She drew little sketches on the pages and everything.
Lovely mom! :3 I love her rn :D
Your mom is awesome!
Big Picture - please say you still have it...
@@deaterk Sadly I do not. The last time I saw it was maybe 20 years ago but I remember it fondly and seeing this video brought back some of the memory I had not thought of in some time.
@@bigpicturethinking5620 - absolutely! A great memory to cherish. Have a great weekend!
This upload could not have come at a better time. Two months ago, I stumbled upon my Grandma's diary, written between christmas '79 and the fall of '82, at a Red Cross store. What it contains, is the most important three-year period in my family history. My Grandad is alive in the beginning but dead at the end, and I am referred to (but not yet born) in the book. I've started a replication process, to give copies to my relatives. This video and by the example from Adam, I will put more effort into it. Thank You, Mr. Savage.
That's really cool.
*such an amazing discovery*
I gotta ask, do you know why her diary was at a red cross store
You were so fortunate to find the diary! What a great thought, to make copies for your family. I know I would treasure it, in your place.
Wow, that's fascinating...You just randomly stumbled on your grandma's diary? It must've been a really, really strange moment.
"I wrote it down so I don't have to remember" is a line I quote at least twice a week.
When it comes to the "tell", it sounds like Adam wrote it down and doesn't remember either!
And I can now hear my mother’s voice second-guessing me.
Half the German army's on our tail, and you want us to go on TH-cam, into the lion's den??
Remembering where I wrote down what I should remember is what I struggle with.
"Google wrote it down for me so I don't have to remember"
I predict one day there will be a "Museum of stuff Adam Savage built and/or collected". Possibly also with a Mythbusters Roller Coaster Ride. Seems inevitable.
It'll be in the Presidio, just down from the Disney Family Museum and Industrial Light and Magic. Perfect.
To that I’d buy a ticket for certain
I would ride that.
Adam: "a prop department isn't going to write a whole book to make a fake book."
Prop guy for Se7en: "WHAT??"
LOL!!!! 😭
You should read the prop diary for The Fog. You can make out at least one of the pages, however briefly:
"...my college education to work writing dumb s**t in this f**king movie prop (...) It's time to bring in the nude girls with big tits, tattoos and shaved beavers."
@@Gilmaris Lol. Yeah, nobody thought about being able to freeze frame that kind of stuff at high resolution and read it at the time so it was ok. Nowadays they have to know better because every little frame will get scrutinized by someone at 4k.
Hahahahaha!!
i saw an interview with alex kingston the other day where she said the prop department was so thorough with a diary prop in doctor who that it included details from a FUTURE episode! i guess the writers had her character’s arc completed well in advance haha (and i guess that’s what happens when it’s a show about time travel)
Running through the archives and found this...
I am an archaeologist (yep, saw Raiders as a kid) and I know so many people who absolutely covet the Holy Grail book, not just because it's a prop from a favorite movie but because archaeologists love the sensory experience of old, well-worn, much loved books. The feel of worn leather, the human hand creativity, the smell, the sound of onion skin, the ink, the junki-ness of it.
I think the entire Junk-Journaling hobby and dark academic aesthetic can be traced right back to that book.
As a graphic designer for 40+ years, I smiled when you dove into the intricacies of book printing and binding. When producing printed media, there is still a "live/safe" area for content as printers cannot guaranty that all sheets will line up exactly on the crop marks. It could be off + or - 1/16" or more. Fun stuff!!
They used to "whip" us in printing school when front and back didn't align well!
Productivity over quality I guess.
if you want fun; think of compensating the bleed by the rim of the book, according to the number of pages.. when you have a double page picture ! haha
@@michaelsarcault1263 ah yes, you refer to 'creep' (that's what we call it the UK anyway! I too am a graphic designer of 40yrs!)
As a kid, I wanted this book so bad. One of the coolest props ever.
RIGHT!? I never got why either, as an 8 year old I was like "wow I wish I could get my hands on that old man's religious research journal looks SICK man" hahahaha
Me, too! (I was 20 or 21 when it came out)
@@Swayzee68 I was a five-year-old. 😩😩😩
I have the prop and it’s so cool!
Onion skin paper was also used for air mail, back when you paid a high premium to ship by air, and the cost was based on the weight.
Yup, I used it when writing to pen-pals in Europe and my relatives in the States, and beyond. You could fit several more sheets in for the same equivalent postage rate.
Yes, I remember a thin blue paper that folded with par aero or something like it and a tiny airplane...it already had the glue to lick and seal, also lines for the address. You could buy a nice box of onionskin for overseas mail, envelopes too to keep the weight down.
@@rennkay3291 par avian? I remember writing actual letters from europe to the USA on the blue paper.
I bought a bundle of airmail envelopes not long ago from someone who'd found some old stock laying around - I wondered why they were so thin - makes total sense now!
I knew I'd seen that stuff before somewhere!
“The Samaritan...is maybe the most involved prop replica I have ever embarked upon.” [Life size functional Iron Man Prototype suit in background]
I know, right???
But didn’t he say he bought it? The iron man suit I mean. So he is painting it up and such.
@@prof_nobody exactly... You can't call something you didn't create originally and I just changing the look of your own product in my view, therefore since you didn't originally created you can't say that it's the biggest endeavor that you embarked upon as it was somebody else's endeavor and not yours...
@@northwiebesick7136 Percentages, not absolute.
That awkward moment when you realize that Adam not only uses Photoshop, but worked with the guy that invented it.
Just wanna say you and Jamie and Tory Grant and Kari got me through hard times. thank you x
"This pollen detector that happens to be placed on my face"
LMAO My gosh youre killing me!
I have three, of varying sensitivity. Two that start to water and leak goo at even slightest provocation, and another one that provides respiratory input, just to make sure that you’re aware of what’s going on.
That's what I say every day to the pollen. "My gosh you're killing me!" It never listens.
I actually knew the chap who made the grail dairy and the grail for the movie. He made my medieval mugs for me. He and his wife were really nice people.
Sweet. I wonder how many copies he made if more than one, and where it/they are. I would Love to be the person who owns an Original prop this advanced, and be able to go to one of the prop replica forums and just 'You guys need help..? I have a thing here you might like to study fully.". And share the master drawings and material info. Coolest would be "Who's the best of you at sharing knowledge to the group, and what's your address?" but these days original props cost too much.
@@nordicmind82 I believe he made about a dozen grails, and two/three books. He had two in his workshop in Wales. Plus a grail diary. I still have the mugs he made me.
Did Adam put the Hitler autograph into the diary too? That became a part of the diary lore. If you don't remember it's when Indy and his dad travel into Berlin to retrieve the diary. As Indy is trying to make his escape he's swept up into a crowd and ends up face to face with Hitler, who grabs the diary and autographs it.
Not sure if Adam did it, but I have two grail diaries and both have the Hitler signature on the correct page from the film. I remember watching the movie the night I got the diary and freeze framing that scene trying to figure out what page it was and if it was included. Was pretty stoked to see it as it just adds to the authenticity.
Another thing included in mine is the rubbing of the knight's shield. Definitely a cool detail that any grail diary should come with.
And is the map torn out?
Was anybody else reminded by the line in the Last Crusade when Adam was talking about forgetting his signature "I wrote it down in my diary so I didn't HAVE to remember."
Definitely!
Oh my god, I wanted an actual Grail Diary replica for so long. When I was 7, I made my own and my mom helped me draw the pictures for it! I loved that thing so freaking much. This video brought back so many memories for me :)
that's adorable ahsiodf
One Day Build Suggestion: Replicate the Grail Tablet
Make A Rubbing
Add it to the diary
Also, I don't supposed your copy got an autograph from that moustached nutter?
GREAT additions!
Excellent idea.
The world needs more people like this guy. His childish enthusiasm for passion-project work is magical.
As a former print shop employee, I remember the nightmare of people who wanted a booklet printed.... when their files weren't set up right, and we had to try and fix it in a limited amount of time. OOF!
I feel your pain. I am asked to polish those turds on an almost daily basis.
@@chriscmoor One of the things I don't miss! LOL
Imposition can be so... imposing!
as person who printed a 8-20 page booklet at various printshops once a week for years, I appreciate you
I’m a old print shop alum also , hand collating, lead type face ...offset press. This is becoming a lost art if it hasn’t already. Thanks for sharing
When The Last Crusade came out I was 5 years old. I remember my dad taking me to the theater to see it. It's one of the few good memories I have with my dad. It was a big deal when it came out. I remember that when my dad and I walked out of the theater there was a booth that was in the lobby selling Indiana Jones souvenirs. My dad in one of his rare moments of generosity offered to get me something. I was soooooo excited because I knew exactly what I wanted. The booth was surrounded by people all clamoring to get one of the really cool props they had on offer. From my memory they were all very authentic. Hats, whips, even leather jackets. My dad and I waited in line for 20 minutes to get up to the counter. When I got there my dad asked me what I wanted. I told him "I want Indiana's dad's diary". The man at the counter told my dad, sorry, that wasn't one of the items. My dad asked if there was anything else I wanted. I wasn't upset, I didn't hesitate, I said "Nope, that's okay. I want the diary". I still remember the puzzled look my dad gave me. That day when we got home I went straight to my room, and started to dig through all my paper and craft stuff. I cut out pieces of paper that I thought were approximately the size of the diary, I cut out a cardboard book jacket and wrapped it in pieces of brown pleather from an old coat I stole from my moms closet, (I still remember being yelled at for that too). I spent a week, scribbling nonsense and drawing glyphs and symbols I had made up in my head that I though looked like what I could remember from the movie. I even spent a few hours trying to draw the stained glass window that led Indie and Dr. Schneider into the tomb of the Knight of the Crusades. I spent a week working on this item. When I was finally done I showed it to my dad. I was so proud if this book. It felt to me as magical, and mysterious as the one from the movie. My dad let out a dismissive laugh and said "That's great". I thought he would be really impressed. He wasn't. Despite his disinterest, I recall carrying the diary I had made around for weeks, making up adventures in my head and exploring my house and yard looking for the grail. I still have the diary. I doesn't look anything like the one from the movie, even though when I dig deep into my memories it was exactly like the one in the movie. Eventually like any kid, my imagination and interests took me elsewhere and I put the grail diary into a drawer and forgot about it. I still have that diary to this day. I keep it in a box of keepsakes. Once every few years when I dig through my box of memories to have a little nostalgia trip I pull out the diary. For a little moment I still feel like that 5 year old kid who had his own grail diary, and remember how great it was.
A signature starts life as a single large sheet when it's printed. It's printed then folded into the final page size before being cropped. The 'signature' is the specific ordering and orientation of the pages on the single page print so that it folds neatly into page order when cropped. There are specific fixed numbers of pages in signatures. You can have 8,12, 16, 24...etc. This explains the 'blank on purpose' pages you sometimes find in books when the total number of book pages doesn't fit neatly into a signature.
This also explains why you had to cut the pages in old books.
A “signature” (or folio) is a folded group of pages for sewing. The practice of arranging those pages so they end up in the correct order in the final book is call “pagination” (or archaically called “foliation”) while laying out multiple pages on a press sheet for printing is called “impositioning”.
Its also why a lot of novels have excerpts from another book at the end, or an author notes page
@DaveDavies I always wondered why there were blank pages at the end of the book!
When I was a kid I ran across a reference to "This space intentionally left - Blank", which confused me for a long time. It wasn't blank, it contained a statement that it was, and why was this space intentionally left blank? It didn't help that this was in an adventure game (Zork) so I was convinced it was some kind of obscure clue. But it was just a pun left by one of the creators referencing book binding (one of the creators last names was Blank!).
Onion skin paper is also used in traditional animation, so that you can see the last pose of the character (in the last frame). And when you have an animation software that allows you to use "onion skin" layers where you can see the other previous frames below your drawing it's based on that too.
A “signature” (or folio) is a folded group of pages for sewing. The practice of arranging those pages so they end up in the correct order in the final book is call “pagination” (or archaically called “foliation”) while laying out multiple pages on a press sheet for printing is called “impositioning”.
I’d love to show you some bookbinding, Adam, if you are ever in Brooklyn. We could also spend an afternoon learning all about the two Linotype machines I keep in operation and which have had numerous cameos in films.
A linotype in operation is an amazing thing. I started out in newspaper and commercial printing at age 20 in the early 1970s. Ludlow machine for headline slugs, several letterset presses inherited when we bought out the local printer, including two nice Heidelbergs, the Rolls Royce of letter presses. It was a totally different world then. We saddle stitched booklets but we used a big stapler machine by then.
Learned a new thing today, “signature”. Anyway, I am impressed by your enthusiasm and attention to detail in making props...
There is a lovely Norwegian girl (nerdforge) who is a maker, doing lots of "magic book" replicas from games and lore and just for fun - showing the entire process in great detail. Here is an example th-cam.com/video/w8MrqRHu2Es/w-d-xo.html&ab_channel=Nerdforge
And here is another fun one, when she makes a really cool travel journal/notebook out of some old boots th-cam.com/video/UznBAQs8l3Q/w-d-xo.html&ab_channel=Nerdforge
I would love to have a replica of the grail journal. I love Indiana Jones
As to the tell, did you put 'Adam Savage' where the diary was autographed by Adolph Hitler?
I have made this prop myself. I have written it all by hand in a blank book. I have used the spreads and filled in the rest using the grail diary from the Lucas arts point and click game. It was a lot of work, but even more fun to do. I’m really proud of it!
You put you're own forgotten mystery into the book. What an exciting new adventure you can do. Please, if you discover it, do share. I look forward to your discovery of your own grail diary.
Your*
All the grammar is like a 9 year old wrote it, it's so bad
@@MuscarV2 Maybe he is. Maybe English isn't his first language. Who cares?
@@MuscarV2 Why be a dick about it? Did belittling someone else make you feel bigger somehow? Whatever is stirring you to behave this way is undoubtedly causing you trouble in your face to face interactions and relationships with others. Seek help.
@@barbarasmith2693 well said, Barbara. 👌
I wonder if THAT signature is in Adam's prop. Didn't notice it, but maybe he skipped it on purpose or he doesn't have it. Totally understand why too.
Was looking for that too. The left page at 21:47 and 22:20 match what we see in the movie, but the right side drawings don’t match on either, so I’m guessing he left it out.
I thought of it as Indy getting the diary in the US, so this copy is from before he gets to Germany.
6:01 For those interested, the book Adam refers to is titled From Star Wars to Indiana Jones: The Best of the Lucasfilm Archives by Mark Cotta Vaz and Shinji Hata.
Thanks just bought it!
Last time I was this early, Indiana was still the dog's name.
"My Five-Dollar Sword hangs directly above my head right now..."
Damocles on a budget.
The Sword of Darnocles
Did you make the rubbing from the grail markers in the movie? Didn’t Indy put the rubbing in the diary as a place to keep it?
I'd say Adam's replica is in the state that Indy receives it in the movie because it's wrapped in the shipping paper and the opening cover is not autographed by a certain guy. My guess is that it should have Henry Sr's rubbing in an insert somewhere, but not necessarily have Indy's addition from the shield.
This also may explain the reason why I couldn’t see Hitler’s signature in the book. Hitler signs the book after the rubbing.
I remember the old Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade computer game had a version of this diary in the game.
I still have my copy!
The content of that is now taken as canon for the "expanded" version of the prop.
If I wanted to keep something out of the hands of the Nazis I would DEFINITELY mail it to Adam Savage! 🤠
Adam (tkbig from RPF here)
Loved the video!!!
Amazingly ironic that I did my Grail diary in 2008 under the same circumstances as you!
Best therapy there is!!!
Keep up the good work dude!!!
When I was a kid, we used onion skin paper for tracing.
Yep, my grandma had a bunch and when we would go to visit she would let me trace out the pictures from her old Audubon bird books.
14:00 .. a-a-a-nd as soon as Adam reveals how cheap onionskin paper is on Ebay it immediately becomes scarce and you can't buy it anymore ! 🤣
20:34 ... I still have my Indiana Jones Official leather jacket purchased from The Bon Marche in the '80's (and the fedora, the straw Panama version)... ❤
I have started calling that phenomenon, where anything Adam refers to by name or links to, as “The Savage Effect”. After every video where I think to myself I’d like to try whatever he’s just shown and go to begin collecting the parts/materials for it, they’re ALL sold out, immediately. It’s kinda li,e he’s Rick-Rolling us all...
@@TheMyeloman It happens all the time with retro games too. Every time a big channel does a "top 10 affordable games" they stop being affordable\available.
Luckily a lot of the stuff Adam recommends is on amazon so you can just stick it on your wishlist and forget about it for 6 months until it comes back in stock then wonder why it's on your wishlist.
@@Rick_Makes Yep, I did that with the work apron. Looks MONTHS but it finally was back in stock.
Paper ephemera are fun recreations. I needed Samuel Colt's instruction sheet to glue inside the lid of my fitted case I made for my old Euroarms 1851 navy revolver repro. I researched & found different versions of the text, combined some to get the most complete version and typeset it in CorelDraw 13. I printed some out and tea-stained and crumpled them up. Very realistic when I glued it inside the lid. I needed old labels for Ely brand percussion cap tins and used the same process, selecting a suitable antique pale green background and typesetting the words in an antiqued font in the same relationship to the real label images. Such fun. I did some items for a Titanic exhibit at the local library, replicating White Star Lines notepads, menus, etc. I did all this in my spare time at my Tee shirt design job. I miss my graphics capability nowadays.
“I zoned out, for weeks, in....uh...........2000?..........Early 2002!”
Lol. I think you zoned out now Adam 😂
Adam is best watched...zoned out.
I'd really like to see Adam make a Necronomicon from The Evil Dead
That would be amazing! I also suggested the Handbook for the Recently Deceased from Beetlejuice
In the printing world we call those mixed numbered, double sided pages as “marriages”
This is the one prop I’ve always coveted from Indy, the last crusade is my personal favourite and I know Raiders is a better movie, the Grail diary made it for me.
@Jimmy Jammy Could be worse, let’s not speak of the Crystal Skull.
Everyone else: breathes easy
Adam: SNIFF! SNIFF!SNIFF!SNIFF!SNIFF!SNIFF!SNIFF!SNIFF!SNIFF!SNIFF!SNIFF!SNIFF!SNIFF!SNIFF!SNIFF! SNIFF!
:P
As a graphic designer this is my favourite of your prop videos! Thanks Adam.
That's a great looking replica and such a cool way to keep yourself creative and active in such a difficult period.
Keep us updated on that tell!
This is super-cool!
I think another reason that onionskin is frequently used is that (at least it used to be) that postage for airmail letters in Europe used to be by the very very fine units of weight, so having thing light paper made sending letters cheaper. So anything that might be sent as a letter was on super-thin (but fairly strong and tear-resistant) onionskin.
wow I'm early
wow I’m early
Same
I love hearing you talk passionately about your projects and the things you like, it makes me want to do more making and expand my passion for making
I clicked on this because I thought it was a grail made out of dairy products.
This is brilliant...as always. Hope you’re feeling better. I’ve been the same with hay fever recently 🙄 take care 👍🏻
I wonder if Adam would ever want to make a "Handbook for the Recently Deceased" from Beetlejuice
As a priest who lays out and prints bulletins more than once a week, I totally feel this. I know EXACTLY what Adam is talking about...
Next Week: We rebuild the tank from Indiana Jones and he Last Crusade.
With that sword hanging over your head, did you name it Damocles?
These are the type of prop that you leave in random places an years later it will become a "real myth" 😅
The happiness Adam exudes as he talks about this made me smile.
Wow great reproduction. I was obsessed with this prop! I remember spending many a joyous night looking at the source materials on Indyprops and recreating them with pen and ink. I even made a matching wooden grail that still sit on my desk today.
They used onion skin for international airmail letters to save on weight.
Little tidbit about the Indy series: in the big truck chase in raiders of the lost ark some of the truck sounds are actually tiger and lion roars.
If, someday, I come into possession of one of the original grail diary film props, I would quite happily trade it for an authenticated Adam Savage grail diary!
Wonderful idea. I’m doing this right now actually. Will have a spot on my coffee table for sure!
My favourite ever prop! Any idea where the original prop is, Adam?
I fell in love with that prop after seeing Last Crusade as well. I made my own from an appropriately sized sketch after finding images from the pages on the internet. I hand drew it starting at page one but only got about 20 or so pages done. I've been trying figure out how do one of the Maltese Falcon. It would be Gutman's diary and include his run ins with Demidov, his allying with Joel Cairo, etc.
The feel of an old used diary/notebook is very satisfying. The crispy paper, and inked thoughts of the moment. Adam is like my childhood maker dreams personified.
I did a little bit of bookbinding in high school when I worked at the local newspaper. It was a tiny town, so they were the only ones with equipment to make paper products like booklets and such. Mostly it was just simple church pamphlets that were just a few pages long. But every now and then the local chamber of commerce would be putting together a presentation or something like that and I got to make stuff you could almost call books.
The glue made a horrible mess (I was a stupid kid and I'm sure I used too much), but it was a nice change of pace from setting ads for the grocery store.
I was watching The Last Crusade, saw this book, paused the movie and entered a rabbit hole of videos on youtube about this prop and finally ending on this video.
I find it interesting that the mailing address is to “Prof. Indiana Jones” and not “Prof. Henry Jones Junior.”
Would’ve been pretty cool if they just snuck his real name in there at the start of the first act. Right in front of us but we’re not looking for it
@@fluffytoaster427 imagine being a kid in the movie theater in ‘89 and reading “to Prof. Henry Walton Jones Junior.” And just screaming “WHAT?!”
Adam, can you please give me a price on the Grail Diary I would love to have one made by you. I am 100% serious. Will $300 be enough? If nor I can pay more.
The irony that you forgot the tell, which you wrote down in the diary "so you wouldn't have to remember" is just magnificent!
Absolutely love it, and as a journal writer myself, it's actually encouraged me to start learning how to bind my own journals.
I love the look and would love tips on how to learn how to bind journals!
Thanks and cheers!
Quick note. Foolscap is a paper size (and is still very much used, my regular, boring job is in a legal stationers and we print all kinds of forms to foolscap dimensions).
TIL ---Somehow I always thought it was a specific weight and type of fiber. Thank you!
you need to add in the rubbing the Jones JR did, then it would be complete
Bad Joke Warning: But Adam, if you removed all the artifacts from the scans of the Grail Diary, isn't it just a diary?
If there are only a couple of real "2 -pagers", would it be a sin to put them in the middle/on the top of a signature, or is the order fixed by what is found (in the movie or other resources) to be most accurate?
Still waiting for Maj. Kong's survival kit.
"Shoot! A feller could have a pretty good time in Vegas with this stuff"
I'd love to see that, including a miniature combination Roossian phrase book and Bible.
I love your attention to detail Adam! You make me feel good about being that same way!
Speaking of replica's!!
Sir Savage, how do you begin to get pics of a project you would like to tackle in depth?
I would dig building the working rolling ball sculpture featured in the film "Fracture" but cannot find detailed info on it.
Thanx for the motivation!!!
My paycheck is still made from unionskin!
Paper props?! What an awesome idea. (Racking brain for prop idea from fav movie) Thanks dude.
Have you made Indys Diary too from Raiders?
On a completely different note, try some Singulair.
I’m not yet sure why, but this video makes me feel really anxious.
"I should have mailed it to the Marx brothers!"
What an awesome prop replica! I find it simultaneously inspiring and wince-inducing at how NOT precious Adam is when handling the various sheets of paper!
Adam, You should do a Kojima Productions - Ludens cosplay.
Just sayin that would be sweet to see done by you.
My goodness! If you'd put that much effort into the actual quest you'd have found the grail by now!
Adam! You should totally make a call out to the people who actually have one of your diaries and do something like a meet and greet for those people and perhaps sign them and effectively "authenticate" them and make them even more original and part of your collection and life's work. At this point, im sure you know we really appreciate everything you do! :D So keep doing it!
He first needs to remember WHAT the TELL MARK was.
Does yours have the Signature from the Book Burning scene?
I recall paper being referred to as Foolscap when I was at school in the 70s/80s . Refers to the size it was cut to 8.5 x 13.5 inches before the size A4 became the recognised general standard. Foolscap was also the name of the watermark used from the 1500s onwards
yup... me too... lots of spelling tests written on the Foolscap!
The watermark was of a court jester in a jesters hat....hence 'Fools Cap', apologies if you guys knew that already.
Has anyone found the book that he mentions The magic of myth? I bet those pictures would be amazing to look at.
As an artist and tinkerer, I dream of having his kinds of resources, this is so cool
I have misophonia, so thanks for the videos Adam, but I'll be back when hayfever season is over!
I love postage packaging that looks like its been places and passed through many hands.
Always reminds me of old cartoons where someone or thing gets shipped around the world.
I'm in my mid 60's, and have a very fond memory of spending time with a neighbor when I was three or four. My parents had asked him to use his professional bookbinding skills to re-assemble a stack of paper that had been a centuries-old family bible containing hand-written records of births, marriages, deaths, immigrations, etc. on the endpapers (that side of the family had been farmers in Sweden). He showed me every step in the process, and every material and tool he used (including a broad-bladed knife-like piece of elephant ivory). The result was remarkable. It's on my bookshelf as I write this.
Adam, do you own Indy boots from Alden? Probably my favorite footwear.
I've been (loosely) trying to do this with the Half-Blood Prince's potions textbook for a while - super cool
You removed all the artifacts while making a Grail diary?? Blasphemy!