Kölner Instacoll gilding size allows excellent gilding with all kinds of gold, silver, palladium, and white gold. It is suitable for both exterior and interior gilding.
With the Instacoll gilding product, you spend less time and effort gilding almost anything. It has a mirror-gloss finish without the need for an agate burnishing tool. You can gild on wood, metal, glass, ceramic, paper, and fabric. This gilding tutorial provides everything you need to gild on anything.
Instacoll Gilding Workshop Outline:
This gilding workshop is for beginners and is based on Kolner gilding products. You can also take the Water Gilding Workshop, which will allow you to decide which method of gilding is best for a particular project.
- Introduction to gilding tools.
- Introduction to genuine gold and silver leaf.
- Introduction to composition (imitation) leafs such as gold, silver, copper, variegated and coloured.
- How to gild with genuine gold leaf.
- How to achieve a metallic gold finish without using an Agate Stone Burnisher.
Gilding on wood:
- You will learn how to prepare your wood to receive the gold leaf size, when to apply the size, and how to apply the gold leaf.
- You will learn how to gild on wood using the patent leaf (Transfer).
Gilding on paper:
- How to gild on paper using Kolner Miniatum to hand-gild calligraphy. Should you want to gild specific patterns and designs to create a luxury invitation with 24k gold leaf?
Gilding on Fabric/canvas:
Gilding on fabric or canvas is an excellent form of art. It allows you to add a touch of 24k gold to a wedding dress or to your canvas work, which will increase its value drastically.
Need to know:
- The workshop is three-four hours.
- No previous gilding experience is required.
- No refund and no reschedule.
- Off-street parking is available.
- Free snacks, coffee and tea are available.
- All the tools and materials (gilder’s kit) covered in this workshop will be provided for you to use (and take) during the workshop.
Instant Gilder:
- By the end of this modern gilding workshop, you can gild on your own.
- So please give it a go; it could be one of the best things you have ever tried! Good luck.
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