Is the bole in the container just watered down molding clay🤔?

If you take the leaves from an empty booklet of gold leaf and rub them onto your cushion, the gold will not stick

I can't stop watching.

Thank you for your videos. I've recently had restore a religious statue and your information has been really valuable. I wish I had known the difference between loose and transfer leaf when I started, but I'm making do with transfer. I also made a gilder's palette from an old bagpipe bag suede and it works nicely.

Subscribed and found a treasure trove of videos! My mother learnt to gild off a master like you but I didnt sit and learn from her. Now trying learn but my teacher is more for furniture - my first frame was is not for close inspection! - so your lessons are a godsend. Excited to try your compo as making gesso/stucco pieces is slow and a bit hit and miss and epoxy is a poor surface for gesso and bole. Also looking forward to cleaning with Vulpex. I am working on a frame with a free standing bow on top with the ends flowing to the sides. Do you have suggestions for buying a mold or a ready made piece? Again many thanks

I use the silicon that dentists use for moulding large fillings. It is cheaper than your silicon putty. Two versions so far: one is rolling two equal amounts together but it sets very fast and less flexible than yours. The other is a putty plus a smaller amount of paste which allows you to extend the moulding time and have something more flexible but i done know if it is as flexible as yours. Love your videos. thank you for sharing so much of the techniques and your own secrets

Question: on projects like these, do you use a protective clear coating or is the final finish just the gold leaf surface?

These mirrors are absolutely gorgeous.

I needed to copy some decorative plaster work which was removed when our house was "converted" in the 1920s - your videos were a great help, so many thanks.

I so much understand you❤ you said so well: not easy to film when you’re not happy ❤

Wonder how much working time lol

Congratulations,you are very good teacher. Thank you.

Thankyou. Finally a video showing step by step frame restoration ! I’ve been making it up as I go along but funnily enough my many attempts at self teaching led me to using the same silicone putty and the milliput as you recommended after much trial and error. Thanks for filling in the blanks! No more bubbly plaster of Paris 😫

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Single-handedly the most useful video on gilding for me thus far. I was failing miserably, trying to save money using imitation gold. Turns out i was doing nothing wrong. Imitation will never behave like real gold. Buying 6K made all the difference. Thank you.

I was told to put a protection layer made of a shellack before putting bole. I see you don't do that. Is it not necessary? Btw. great videos. Let me know please, when your courses will start. I hope there will be online posiibility.

Dear Ruth, really enjoy your video's. I have several old(er) frames of which it is unclear if gold paint has been used or that they are gilded. Can you advise me on a method how to figure it out? Thanks in advance.

This is the best video I've found on gilding. Thank you for your generosity in sharing your expertise. I'd love to see how to gild complicated shapes like antique Chippendale style drawer pulls.

Ruth, your videos always make my day and I've had an excellent time learning from you and restoring my own bits and pieces at home. I'm very excited for the aging video on your course. When do you think we may be able to buy it? - I know you have a lot on, so I hope you get some well-deserved down-time too. Thank you for being a beacon of such a treasured art.

Exactly the demonstration I was looking for as I’m exploring gilding plaster cast from clay models. Thanks again for your efforts!

So interesting how gilding works definitely something that I'm going to try in the future. Keep this video saved to help me then :)

Hi Ruth, could you do a video on buying second frames? What to look out for? etc? I've recently been looking at restoring frames for my own paintings and they can be hit and miss, and prices vary widely. thank you

If you buy art from the 1800:s & it has a water guilded frame, it is always good art & expensive. (Sweden.) You can start by looking at the frame, then by all means, also check out the painting.... That kind of art has always been over my budget, but i did come across one such painting, in the Antique shop down at the corner where i lived, which i purchased... It was a small sturm & drang landscape, in the classic 7-layer technique, i.e. thin layers and that glorious sky rendering... probably older than 1850... A typical water-guilded-frame painting... Not that water guilding was especially expensive, but the people moving in from the countryside, they were perfectly happy with the classical, cottage/road/forest (optional lake & moose), in a gold painted frame.

Thanks for your work. Best of all I have seen and clearly you are a professional that knows proper way to gilding. I wonder if you can tell me where do you put chase your true gold leaves and the sizing. Also I wonder if you give online classes or in person. Much appreciated knowledge you have. Thank you. Rohanna Salom

Thank-you for this great video, it's a real pleasure to see you work 👌

Such excellent work, thank you for taking the time to share your skills and knowledge.

C'est magnificent! Gracias love!

superb!

wow sucha patience

Interesting to see all the competent work that goes into such a restoration. Love it! (also laughing about the fact that my eyes are so near sighted that where you put you glasses on to do the detail work, I would be taking mine of to do the same (as I do when embroidering tiny stitches😅)

Amazing talent Ruth.

that's awesome, keep the videos comin

Thank you very much Ruth for freely sharing so much of your knowledge on framing and gilding. Through watching your detailed videos over the past few years, you've helped me build my own gilded frames from scratch for my paintings. Before I had discovered your channel, building anything more ornate than a very basic float frame seemed completely out of reach. I've substituted some of the materials used for convenience sake (such as using paper clay instead of compo for the ornamentation), but the underlying process of creating a frame remains exactly the same as you've demonstrated. Thank you once again.

Stunning restoration… love watching these videos ❤

Wonderful expertise Ruth you make it look so easy.

Hi Ruth, only just discovered you on KZbin so I’ve a lot of catching up to do, loved watching you on the tv show the restorers but now I can watch you here doing what you do best a expert with a passion for what you do an artist I could watch you all day

The results are stunning! It must be so satisfying to save pieces of history.

brilliant restoration

Ruth ! Im sitting here in Bulgaria with a fierce heat outside 37c,,,,,,,,,,,, glued to your amazing videos,,,,,,,,,,,,, your such an inspiration ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, many many thanks gal xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

It must be very satisfying to bring the frame back to life. I look forward to the gilding course!

I’m really enjoying watching these videos. Thank you for sharing your process. Could I ask what you use to make the moulds, I need to cast some decorative trim on a furniture piece and there are so many products out that that I’m finding it confusing. The two part product you use in this video looks ideal.

Really great quality result and presentation. You are a natural in front of the camera. Thank goodness you don't add gimmicks. Lovely job, Ruth!

Truly a silk purse out of a sows ear! What a wonderful looking frame when you have finished.

I’ve almost dipped my brush several times into my coffee instead of the gilding water !😂

A great job there Ruth and if only it was that quick watching the speeded up section!Im most interested in your particular way of toning or aging and distressing the gold so it looks as though I will have to pay!

Beautifully done. I hope you keep uploading videos, as I think you will do very well seeing as you are well known from TV. Unlike the rest of us banging are heads against a wall trying to get a foot in the door. Can't wait for the next video.

Thanks again for a great demo. Your videos are so informative, a wealth of knowledge to us dabbling in this hobby. If I may ask, how is the gesso putty made? Thank you again...keep well.

Superb. Thank you Ruth.

Wow. I feel weird saying this about a frame, but it’s gorgeous 😻

Ruth rules!