Video · YouTube
Water gilding for beginners
- Type
- Video
- Level
- Intermediate
- Length
- 26 min
- Price
- Free
- Published
- 2022
About this lesson
A professional gilder water-gilds a Victorian frame: cutting leaf on the pad, the gilder's tip, gilding water, laying leaf, and burnishing with agate.
Chapters
- 0:00intro
- 0:46Water gilding
- 21:21Burnishing
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