Gilding

Buy Gilding material, products, supplies and tools here. The term gilding covers the process of applying fine sheets Gold leaf, Silver leaf, Palladium Leaf or gold powder to solid surfaces such as Glass, Metal, Stone and Wood with a thin coating of Precious Metals. Gilding: Act of applying metal leaf to a surfaces including object.
Gilder: the name for Artisan or Individual applying metal leafing,
Gilded: Objects and Surfaces post-after applying precious metals
Gilt: Objects and Surfaces post-after applying precious metals

Gilding Application Methods:

Oil Gilding:  use of gilding Oils and Oil based varnish adhesive glues known as Gold size and or Sizing

Chemical gilding: gold is used stages in which a state of chemical combination is required. The use of chemicals to assist in bond atomized or powder gold to a surface, some times referred to as Angel Gilding.

Electroplating: Known as Gold Plating, is the process of plating one metal onto another by hydrolysis, most commonly for decorative purposes or to prevent corrosion of a metal. There are also specific types of electroplating such as copper plating, silver plating, and chromium plating.

Reverse Glass Gilding: Gilding gold leaf in reverse to view from other side of glass. a mix of decorative Oil and Water advanced gilding technique, Water and Gelatin are combined to create gold sizing, then flowed over glass as a adhesive for attaching gold leaf sheets.

Water Gilding: Water and Gelatin are combined to create gold sizing, then flowed over glass as a adhesive for attaching gold leaf sheets.

• Mirror Gilding: a subset to water gilding, Water and Gelatin are combined to create gold sizing, then flowed over glass as a adhesive for attaching gold leaf sheets.
  
• Glass Gilding: a subset to water gilding, Water and Gelatin are combined to create gold sizing, then flowed over glass as a adhesive for attaching gold leaf sheets.

Water Gilding on Clay Bole: Bole is Used in Framing Pictures, Furniture and Architectural Decorative Trim is consider to be Surface Gilding. Water Gilding with Bole produces a Satin Glow and Burnishing Gild with Stone smooth Agets produces a shiny Chrome like Shine to the surface Gild. Fine pigmented Bole Clay mixed with Heated Water and ground Rabbit Skin Hide Glue make your basic base and once brushed on, just requires wetting after sanding smoth to apply Gold leaf. Bole is like Gesso. More modern Gilding Boles have Ground Shellac to help attach to woods better, these Boles require a Gilders Liquor made of Water and Methanol Alcohol to wet the Rabbit Skin Glue with water and to soften the Shellac with the Alcohol.

Gilding Facts: Gilding gold architectural widow trim was as a protective coating that can resist corrosion for 25-50 years.

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