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[Lars.wac]

Hello.. I saw this watergilding of a frame and got a little interresting.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=67LM4Iovll4

How do I water guild a frame like that? Is the water size the same as when water gilding on glass? Water and geletine? And what about preperation?

-Lars

[Lars.wac]

Now I found something about the preperation with gesso and bole. Now I just need the recipe of the water size. I know its something with water, rabbit skin glue or geletin and alcohol? I just dont understand why to use alcohol in the size?

[oreodeus]

The alcohol would make the liquid dry faster.

[Jillbeans]

The only water gilding I have done (badly) was on glass using gelatin capsules dissolved in distilled water in a little pot on a portable burner.
It was more this method:
http://69.94.65.35/howto/water.pdf
(this company also sells the supplies you'd need and they are nice people)


A quick search on water gilding pulled this up:
http://users.lmi.net/~drewid/water_gilding_faq.html
But I don't know anything about this method.
Love....Jill

[Steve Maple]

you have to put the capsules into cold water first, let them soften, then add warmer water, as you will cook them, they never then dissolve properly.

rabbit skin glue is used when making gesso, as it dries hard.
-i.e. you can then burnish it up nice, with your dog toof, i.e. if it were a soft glue like pva it would wrinkle , plus of course you can't then scrape carve it, and the rabbit glue is reversible too.