Making a Leather Mosaic Binding for the Four Gospels - Clad with Sterling Silver Fittings

Me and my dad were getting ready for a local competition for Contemporary Christian Art and our entry will be this mosaic binding of the Four Gospels.
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[@24613836]

Please do not ever stop doing this, you are such an inspiration to us keen crafter's, thank you so much for sharing you're skill and talent

[@Stopan]

Thank you, I'll do my best! Very glad to hear fellow craftsmen watching!

[@jesseh.winnii8558]

That is absolutely beautiful

[@Stopan]

Thank you!

[@3Pazza]

Here are so many wonderful comments, I join in all of the best ones. CHAPEU Stopan!

[@eyesofthegoddess2967]

Such a beautiful peace of art, a Da Vinci of binding and creation with your father. You make a magnificent team together. Love your work.

[@cynthiaeaton2342]

Stopan, I am so impressed with how skilled you have become in just 6 years. Your work shows your heart. Your videos tell me that you have a great family that works together, my heart is warmed when I see your videos. Please continue your great work. Regard.... Cynthia

[@thinkingahead6750]

An inspiration

[@namayamesker1241]

Hi Stopan, Thank you again for sharing such beauty with us. To see you and your dad crafting this masterpiece is incredible beautiful to witness. I love how you edited this video with small explanations of what you are doing. It makes it very comfortable to watch. I wish I could read what is written in this book. It feels very important to read. I wish you and your dad good luck with the competition! With Love, Namaya

[@konnie9325]

Beautiful!❤️

[@conservativecalvinist3308]

As a Christian I find religious (especially Christian) art of exceeding beauty and richness and this is no exception. Thank you.

[@Stopan]

Thank you! We almost managed to win a prize with the work at the Biennale for Contemporary Chirstian art, here in Bulgaria but a very beautiful (and large) icon was the winner in the end. Right now, the book is in a private collection in the UK.

[@conservativecalvinist3308]

@@Stopan Im sorry you didnt win. Its cool to hear that you live in Bulgaria though. I lived in Germany for two years and passed through Bulgaria twice, and my church here in the US has three or four missions churches in Bulgaria.

[@BringOnTheRainxx3]

I love how proud you are of the headbands-which you should be; they're fantastic!

[@Bildgesmythe]

That's a book worthy of some ancient king. So beautiful!

[@polkadottedpolak]

Incredible craftsmanship! I'm so glad I found your channel. Keep up the great work!

[@Stopan]

Hey there and welcome! Thanks and have a great week!

[@yayaglass]

I'd love it if you'd create a vid on how to Gild, the materials, binder, irons. That's the one thing I'm lacking, and I find a lot of conflicting information out there. Love this newest series. Thank you for including me in the process!

[@Stopan]

Thank you as well! Unfortunately, I do need to take some classes myself, before I feel comfortable to educate other people on the subject. I still have a lot to learn and wouldn't want to mislead people.

[@valentinayankova4568]

Благословени да сте! Друго не мога да кажа...

[@Thiscouldbeyou]

The backing bit really helped me with my own technique. Thanks Stopan! Incredible work as always.

[@PinkOddBird]

Always a joy to watch your videos!

[@VGForg]

Идеально! Просто замечательно! Браво!

[@LivresAudio]

Fantastic piece of art as always :) wanna see more stuff like this.

[@Stopan]

Thank you!

[@bbq-blues8664]

Another masterpiece! Absolutely beautiful... thanks to you and your father for producing these great works of art... Anxiously awaiting my commission! Peace ❤️

[@Stopan]

Cheers, Eric! No more projects left, so we're diving deep with yours as early as tomorrow!

[@bbq-blues8664]

Stopan, very nice! Thank you!

[@agaiths1221]

Incredible work. I love seing how both of you grow in your fields of expertise, how you always push yourselves to try different things, new techniques and styles. You are very inspiring, thank you for sharing your art with us.

[@OMEGATEAM473]

Beautiful once again. I always learn a lot on each of your videos just from watching. Thank you!

[@sparkselot2115]

Thank you for what you do! keep it up! I attend a weekly bible study, and the pastor has organized the lessons into these little booklets. i wanted to find a good way to store them for later use. After watching some of your videos, I have decided that, as they already come in signatures, to bind them in a book myself. i have 9 weeks to allocate supplies and practice before i have all the lessons ;) I'm definitely going simple (cloth and hard bound), but its still very exciting.

[@Stopan]

Wonderful! Sound like a great idea. Wishing you best of luck!

[@grimtt]

Beautiful entry! You’ve got my vote! 🙂 Great teamwork!

[@lisajarvis3820]

WOW ~💗 how you did that double headband!!👏🏾👏🏾👍🏽👌🏾😎

[@gryla5290]

Can you imagine joining the competition as an amateur and seeing this?

[@adamsmith1267]

Miss seeing your work. Hope you post something new one day!

[@PanginooTV]

Such a shame that KZbin didnt notify me when you uploaded this 2 weeks ago! But as always, beautiful video that shows your amazing craftsmanship!

[@deerbard]

Don't count on KZbin, subscribe via RSS. Cheers!

[@lisajarvis3820]

Do you make your own corners and clasps? They are beautiful!!👏🏾👏🏾👌🏾👍🏽😎

[@BrazenHead76]

Amazing! Super impressive!

[@marciamariacamargogonzales5621]

Lindo... trabalho lindo 🖤📚

[@IchigoDeFolie]

Stopan I love you and your dad so much. Please both continue to grow in your respective arts. I want to try my hand at bookbinding, any tips for easing into it and warnings to save money? :D

[@Stopan]

Thank you for your continuous support! I've written up a short introductory guide to bookbinding here that may help you in this. You can find it here: www.iostopan.com/considering-bookbinding-a-short-first-step-guide/ Please let me know if I can help any other way. Have a great week!

[@romanskorosvetov9506]

Очень круто!

[@EMPERORSPROTECTION-TERRA4LIFE]

I would really love it of you could make me a "book of grudges". Do you do commisions?

[@rockessence]

Wow

[@tropicalhellesdongardenuk2991]

fantastic, what is the bit of material that you roll over the gold leaf to remove the excess please?

[@user-wj1tj2ko9q]

slavno!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@portiafuller6728]

What is that magic tool you used to get the remaining gold off? The one you rolled on the surface? I always pull off half my gilding trying to wipe mine away. Gorgeous and inspiring work as usual

[@Stopan]

Thank you! I just use a kneaded eraser. I'm not sure if it's the proper term in English. It's like a soft rubber which I roll to make into a long stick to cover more surface.What are you using? Is it pulling it off because it's too sticky or because the gold didn't stick too well?

[@grimtt]

Stopan it looks like a charcoal eraser, rolled into a “stick” . Clever! 👍

[@MillerJustinFS]

@@grimtt I had to look that up. Neat. Yeah they call it a Kneaded Eraser and its used for charcoal art. Awesome.

[@aspektx]

I've been wondering lately about the process of creating facsimiles of various illuminated manuscripts, like the Book of Kells or any of the book of hours tomes. The printer and finding digital files worth reproducing might be difficult, but combined with this level of binding it might be worth the trouble.

[@TheLupulalb]

Do you know that Tandy leather is retiring from Europe? your dad makes some great corners, where did he buy the glasses? ... beautiful blanket, congratulations!

[@emilyrobinson6080]

Hello, Ive been wanting to back into bookbinding after some amateur attempts, and was wondering about the tool that can be seen at 1:25, where its like a small table shaped vise with rails that a plane fits onto. What is this tool called? it seems very useful. Is it commercially available or homemade and if the latter are there plans for it somewhere? Hope youre well.

[@Stopan]

Hello! The vice-like tool is generally called a lying press, while the addition that cuts the book edges is called a bookbinding plough or plane. This particular one was bought from James at oliveandoak.com/ Have a great week!

[@graciouscompetentdwarfrabbit]

Awesome, as always, but my question is unrelated to the bookbinding process and the Four Gospels, what I really want to know is: Who's the Saint in the icon at the end of the video and where can I buy one like that?

[@Stopan]

Hey! The saint is St. Clement of Ohrid, a disciple of St. st. Cyril and Methodius. He was instrumental for the enlightenment of the Bulgarian people of the past and spreading of the Cyrillic alphabet. It was a present from my parents for my birthday some 7-8 years ago, or maybe less, I've forgotten. It was commissioned from Iliana Betsinska. You can find her work here: ikoni.eu/%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%B8 Although the website is old and unresponsive, and in Bulgarian. We have many artists creating icons here and most of them do an excellent job.

[@consideringorthodoxy5495]

Where did you get the printed pages from. How are they printed?

[@Stopan]

I got the texts from the Bulgarian Orthodox Church website, formatted them and printed them myself.

[@ivomarmartins2]

show demais parabens

[@Stratigic_Cheese_Reserve]

How was the Text made? A printer or a Press?

[@theray3run]

What a beautiful book dude! What kind of paper do you use?

[@TheUmeboy]

Do you do custom jobs?

[@OMEGATEAM473]

Do you use a leather varnish after gilding?

[@Stopan]

A small amount of the shellac glaire.

[@HolyJonsonhi]

👍❤️👍

[@M.morato]

como é feita esta peça que voce passa para refilar?

[@Dian_Borisov_SW]

Пиша просто да има един коментар на български

[@alekseikkk1807]

бога нет

[@blissfulcharm4492]

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