For more then 7000 years, mankind decorated all sorts of surfaces and items that presented an idealistic value with fine layers of gold. For this purpose gold dust or gold leaf was used. Vassari (1511 – 1574) writes that a gold coin, 1 Dukaten, was beaten into thin sheets of gold leaf and produced between […]
Most frames, we regard as “old” were crafted by hand.Ornaments were made of a plaster like substance called “Compo” and then adhered onto a wooden profile. After drying they were finished off with a water or oil gilding technique. Compo is a mixture of chalks and animal glue mixed and kneaded together until it reaches a […]
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Thomas H. Rebok
Fine Art Restoration cc
80 Hout Street
Cape Town
Phone: +27 84 2903315
Email: thomas@rebok.co.za