Gilding for Unique Recreation and Business

There are a lot of arts for recreation and entertainment but nothing is easy and more rewarding as art gilding. You can do water color, painting a canvass, and much more of the like but we’ve all done that before and many people are already used to it that when we finish doing those things its not going to have any attention at all unless of course you’re a well know artist and do exhibits.

Such recreations are really rewarding but did you know that gilding started way back when Egyptians used it for their decorations on their homes, ornaments, and tombs. Old Egyptian paintings were also showing their blacksmith making gold leaf. On the other hand, Romans began their gilding practice on their temples and palaces after the destruction of Carthage that happened on 149 BC.



So What is Gilding exactly?

Relics and important or non-important objects/ornaments such as old statues, picture frames, private or commercial decors, and even roman chariots in museum would look much great if it was refurnish. Better than that if it would look like a gold antique that was revived. Making an object look new by turning it from an old antique wood that nobody turns their eyes on into a new revived and refurnish gold or silver attracting object is one of the things Gilding can do.

Now to produce thin metal and gold leaf that is used for metal, silver and gold gilding; element of gold or other metal essentials are pounded together. One of the easiest ways of gilding procedure is water gilding where you are just like painting an object, just dip your brush in the gold and brush away like an expert. There’s also a “size” which you’ll be using that acts like a paste so you can stick that gold leafs, let it dry a bit, and brush off the excess later. Can you just imagine when your friends or colleagues visit your home and notice this gold shining grandpa clock and you can smugly say its made from a real gold or you can proudly say that you have refurnish its new look all by yourself.

You would also want to know about gilding depletion “surface enrichment” which is the process of subtracting material to increase the purity of gold that is already present on the said object that was gilded.

Learning to Gild

All of these may sound interesting but before all of that it’s pretty important to learn the basics and take a course for gilding. Gilding process you might want to learn such as gilding for food decoration, yes, there is food gold leaf gilding that you might want to learn on how to apply in some of your gourmet if you’re a chef who wants to learn new techniques to add up presentation on your delicious food with a gold remark. You can even start your own business of art gilding after a two few weeks of gilding course as gilding supplies and tools can easily be ordered to a nearby gilding academy.

Unfortunately there’s not a lot of institution right now that offers complete professional master gilding class but you can visit Art Gilding in Buckingham where you can learn ancient gilding at its best and discover how timeless art of metal leaf application can bring unique contemporary and classic beautification to your home and other premises.