Pages intricately pressed on top of one another — welcome to the lost art of dragon scale bookbinding. The method, over 1,000 years old, was invented in China but was later overshadowed by the more conventional way of binding books. Now one artist is trying to bring it back.
0:00 Dragon scale bookbinding 0:50 Resurrecting the artform 1:56 How to bind a book 2:58 Why people are amazed
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Producer: Lyn Yang Videographers: Stella Wang, Yichuan Zhang Editor and animation: Cliff Man Mastering: Victor Peña
