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Gilding Protocol (GNS SP16)
By Making and Knowing Project (Columbia University)
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About this lesson
A lab procedure for gilding a bole-coated panel: sanding and burnishing the bole, warming rabbit skin glue, mixing a water-alcohol size, cutting and laying leaf with a gilder's cushion, then burnishing.
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