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.
@@englishrose4388 thanks 😊 You would oil gild the drawer pulls. Like I did in the weathervane video or the gilded key video th-cam.com/video/_nJwUFwvQT8/w-d-xo.html
I remember that I learned to put the gold leaf, in the first year of the academy, in a restoration camp. It was winter, we were sitting in impossible positions on the scaffolding in the dome of the church, and that's how we had to gild the stucco. You are wonderful and your advices are very good even for connoisseurs. Thank you!
I'm absolutely new to this and I love how you went through such a detailed explanation to explain the behaviour of the materials - one of the best instructionals I've seen on any technique. Thank you.
Nice demo Ruth. The alcohol in the water or, gilders liquor, is a wetting agent. It's purpose is to prevent air bubbles from being trapped under the leaf.
Thank you for making such an informative video explaining the step by step process. I've done oil gilding and always wanted to try water gilding. You have helped and inspired tremendously. Please keep the videos coming....you are a wonderful teacher.
Ruth I must admit to some hero worship here. I started watching Salvage Hunters when it first started. You folks were on BBC Canada for a few seasons and then I thought the show ended. I found out several years later that the show was no longer available to us. Now to watch it, is a technological adventure, so I miss some of them. The first time I ever saw you gild a mirror or maybe it was a different article, I'm getting old LOL. I wanted to learn more about it from you but, well now I can! All of you who work with Drew or Saxon or Tony, you are all just the best of the best and I have been around. My wife Judy just adored your work! That table you used a toothpick to clean!! 💯💯! The finished product, well Judy and I have watched it four times! Anyway I'm a Canadian so I talk too much! Thanks for this Ruth!!!
Keep an eye on my "The Restorers ' playlist. If I find a copy of the episode I'm on I'll put it on there. But the videos get taken down quickly because the person who has uploaded them is breaking copyright.
@@RuthTappinGilder I don't watch those as the copy is awful. There was one called Salvage Hunters I thought might be okay. I am often torn. If I could pay to get them I would, but to do it the right way is around $600/yr because I have to buy a subscription to another service that shows Quest. I have a friend in your neck of the woods who helps me out, but it is a bit of fiddling to watch what they record. I know Quest stuff gets posted but they are 7 to 9 minutes long, not satisfying. I wish Quest would play through one of three BBC channels I have access to on legitimate TV. One is BBC Canada, then BBC Documentary and then BBC Select. Out of curiosity do you watch Call the Midwife? One of the best shows in the world? Is it wrong to watch Downton Abbey just for the furniture? Anyway thank you again.
@@kerrypitt9789 we are lucky here to get quest free. I also pay for discovery plus £40 a year. Discovery owns quest. That means I get to watch one week before it's on tv, so can decide if I'm telling anyone I'm on 😁
Hi Ruth, how the tech change when doing smaller contours in that frame? Do you just use smaller pieces or what? Also about the knife. Do you try to just clean your knife or sharpen it with that sanding paper?
Thank you Ruth Tapper! We currently use oil guilding over at the Architect of the Capital in Washington D.C. Water guilding seems as it would be more efficient. I find your handling of the leaf about as accomplished as is humanly possible. Much respect and genuine compliments to you. Perhaps with time and practice I may be able to improve our approach some. So far all we occasionally do is gold lettering placed into carved plaques and signs as part of the painting program. In the past I also occasionally repaired guided picture frames as part of the framing trade. Your handling is inspiring.
SO glad I found you! I've been wanting to gold leaf a few frames that were painted with radiator paint in the 40's. I have real gold leaf & fake gold leaf. My great uncle was a pro and I inherited all his supplies. Wish I had learned from him but I wasn't interested at the time, but I think if I watch & rewatch you I 'll be able to do this. Thank you.
Fab. I've been oil gilding on stone and metal for years but recently taught myself to water gild so I could collaborate on an antique frame restoration (which i'm still in the process of completing). Your recent videos have popped up at almost exactly the same times that I've been applying the same processes (glue, gesso, bole, water gilding...) and have been really helpful and reassuring. It's been a steep and often frustrating learning curve but I'm am thoroughly enjoying it and the results make all the months of research and weeks of prep totally worthwhile. Thanks again Ruth :)
Ohh this was good. I just bought some gold leaf from the supermarket, it’s used for confectionary and so I had a stab at it. All the difficulties inherent in its nature revealed itself biggly. Cannot wait to tool up and go through your entire back catalogue Ruth, many thanks, really looking forward to meeting this demanding craft head on now.😊
Great teaching video with all the tips & tricks, I enjoy crafting it’s not as skilled but I love watching people who are good at what they do also watch you on Drew Pritchard videos.
Thank you Ruth for this super video. I am a person.....when I SEE this , and i practicize it 3 times , it is OK. I learn it myself, this most difficult way of guilding and it works!!!! It makes me verry happy. Thank you so much.
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.
What an excellent tutorial. I'm doing a bit of crafting tomorrow so was looking for the basics but you have opened my eyes to the craftswomanship of guiding. Thank you.
No wonder I couldn’t get started. First time i saw guys gilding with leaf was outside on a busy road. I watched and thought yeah thats easy . Now 40 years later just got around to trying it myself. Im used to picking up skills easily: not this time. Good teacher btw . Feels like you’re talking to me not a room full of half listeners
@@RuthTappinGilder right now if I could pull off a foot long pin stripe : id be over the moon. Im hoping A S Handover gold size 3 hours is correct. Coz dat wot eyes got . Fingers crossed
Video was very helpful for newbies such as myself, thank you for taking the time to show others your skill and techniques, I especially appreciated the parts where you demonstrate common problems and the solutions everyone will deal with at some point.
Thanks Ruth for your videos, they are so helpful! I've had several attempts at water gilding but never happy with the result. You've given me courage to keep at it!
Always love your segments on The Restorers, and I love your work. I wish we had more talented restorers like you in Canada. I have so much gilding work needed for various pieces.
What a superb video! Thank you so much! LOVE the fact you use IPA - it saves my vodka and is particularly appropriate because at the beginning of the pandemic I started making hand sanitiser for friends and relatives. Once a cheap commercial version was available I was left with 10 litres of the stuff...... I have sufficient to last me out.
Nice tutorial. Never done water gilding but have done a bit of conventional gilding using slow sizing as I was doing relatively large works such as freezes and large capitals. Patience and practice are key.
Thank you so much for this excellent video! I'm new at water gilding and really look forward to "mastering" the art! Well, that's my aim. I've taken 2 courses so far. I've learned so much with your video today. I have not been taught how to apply the gold leaf with a brush, oils on the face etc. How to cut and burnish the leaf etc. I need to buy all your supplies that you were using! I could go on and on but I won't : ) Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!
I am just starting one very ornate frame right now.Quite a project for the first time doing. Not sure if I will continue, but I thoroughly enjoyed your presentation. Easy to understand and great tips, thank you. Threasa, California.
How wonderful! Thank you so much for sharing. I want to start a new project and I bought the gold leaf and I wasn't quite sure how I wanted to start it and I'm definitely going to do this.
I love your videos and gain moments of happiness from your lovely work. I am in my late seventies and have a question. Why someone as clever as you is using rabbit skin glue? Please enlighten me. My grandparents told me not to use it as it swells and causes cracking. I look forward to hearing what other glues you use for water gilding. My grandparents just used water. They were not trained gilders but it seemed to work.
You need very little rabbit skin glue in the water, some gilders use gelatine but that is usually for glass gilding. The gilding water is activating all the rabbit skin glue in the bole thats what is holding the gold. The tiny bit of glue in the water helps with the lay lines where the second piece of gold overlaps the first.
Don't be funny I'm guilding. Saw those leafs fly like in an Autumn storm. Youtubing and guilding seems like a tough combo even for one so experienced as you.
I loved how you explained everything slowly and just not showed the steps but the problems that might occurred. I always struggled about dealing with gold leaf and maybe I will give it another trial. My Question is I have ready gilding paste do I dissolve that in water or directly apply? because the instruction does not tell
Its amazing your work and videos, but if you can put automaticaly traductor to your videos it will be so big help you understand you all, for people like me that not understand so great inglish❤❤❤❤
Thank you so much for showing this film. I am beginner and I want to know exactly the name of the tools that I have to buy. I mean to start with. Glue pencil etc. You explained it very well.🙏
This was so helpful, thank you! ~Just a thought: Perhaps wear a mask so it won't blow away from breathing? (Of course you'll have to remove the mask to blow on the gold, but at least you'd be sure it would only be blown on purposefully.)
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.
@@englishrose4388 thanks 😊
You would oil gild the drawer pulls. Like I did in the weathervane video or the gilded key video th-cam.com/video/_nJwUFwvQT8/w-d-xo.html
Great video. I'm keen to see the burnishing process as well.
Thanks. If you go to the water gilding play list, some of the other water gilding videos shows burnishing.
I remember that I learned to put the gold leaf, in the first year of the academy, in a restoration camp. It was winter, we were sitting in impossible positions on the scaffolding in the dome of the church, and that's how we had to gild the stucco. You are wonderful and your advices are very good even for connoisseurs. Thank you!
Thank you 😊
I'm absolutely new to this and I love how you went through such a detailed explanation to explain the behaviour of the materials - one of the best instructionals I've seen on any technique. Thank you.
Nice demo Ruth. The alcohol in the water or, gilders liquor, is a wetting agent. It's purpose is to prevent air bubbles from being trapped under the leaf.
Thanks 😊. That makes sense as it reduces the water tension.
Congratulations,you are very good teacher. Thank you.
@@spirosavras1595 thank you 😊
*you want to run around the room, celebrating… but you won’t because the gold foils will fly EVERYWHERE! 😂😂💦 thanks so much for this awesome lesson. 💜
Well done! Great job. The new gold matched nice with the old at the end there.
Thank you 😊
Thank you for making such an informative video explaining the step by step process. I've done oil gilding and always wanted to try water gilding. You have helped and inspired tremendously. Please keep the videos coming....you are a wonderful teacher.
😊 thank you. More videos in the pipe line. 😁
I admire your patience.
Ruth I must admit to some hero worship here. I started watching Salvage Hunters when it first started. You folks were on BBC Canada for a few seasons and then I thought the show ended. I found out several years later that the show was no longer available to us. Now to watch it, is a technological adventure, so I miss some of them. The first time I ever saw you gild a mirror or maybe it was a different article, I'm getting old LOL. I wanted to learn more about it from you but, well now I can! All of you who work with Drew or Saxon or Tony, you are all just the best of the best and I have been around. My wife Judy just adored your work! That table you used a toothpick to clean!! 💯💯! The finished product, well Judy and I have watched it four times! Anyway I'm a Canadian so I talk too much! Thanks for this Ruth!!!
Keep an eye on my "The Restorers ' playlist. If I find a copy of the episode I'm on I'll put it on there. But the videos get taken down quickly because the person who has uploaded them is breaking copyright.
@@RuthTappinGilder I don't watch those as the copy is awful. There was one called Salvage Hunters I thought might be okay. I am often torn. If I could pay to get them I would, but to do it the right way is around $600/yr because I have to buy a subscription to another service that shows Quest. I have a friend in your neck of the woods who helps me out, but it is a bit of fiddling to watch what they record. I know Quest stuff gets posted but they are 7 to 9 minutes long, not satisfying. I wish Quest would play through one of three BBC channels I have access to on legitimate TV. One is BBC Canada, then BBC Documentary and then BBC Select. Out of curiosity do you watch Call the Midwife? One of the best shows in the world? Is it wrong to watch Downton Abbey just for the furniture? Anyway thank you again.
@@kerrypitt9789 we are lucky here to get quest free. I also pay for discovery plus £40 a year. Discovery owns quest. That means I get to watch one week before it's on tv, so can decide if I'm telling anyone I'm on 😁
Ruth I did not know Discovery owns Quest! More letters to write! Thank you!
Thank you Ruth, that was very helpful. You do make it look so easy. 🙂
You are excellent technician Ruth, You're Videos get better everytime.
Thanks Joe 😁
Hi Ruth, how the tech change when doing smaller contours in that frame? Do you just use smaller pieces or what?
Also about the knife. Do you try to just clean your knife or sharpen it with that sanding paper?
Just mesmerising and very easy to watch and listen to you. At the end, I’d love to see you burnishing close up.
I’ll be wearing a mask when I try this! 🌬
Thank you, Ruth! You are an excellent educator. Thank you for sharing your experience with us.
Your welcome 😊
I recently watched how gold leaf is made in Japan. Very interesting process. This looks like something i would enjoy.
Having just messed up my first gilding job, thank you!
😬 hope the second goes better. 😁
Thank you for the great tutorial.
You're welcome 😊
C'est magnificent! Gracias love!
Just got into gilding....i guess I'm gonna be passable I got tutor like this. Thanks from Glasgow
Thanks for sharing your knowledge!!
@@hairlesscactus your welcome 😁
Thank you very much. You are very patient and professional when you're explaining. I enjoyed learning with you. Greetings from Morelia México
😊👋
Thank you Ruth Tapper! We currently use oil guilding over at the Architect of the Capital in Washington D.C. Water guilding seems as it would be more efficient. I find your handling of the leaf about as accomplished as is humanly possible. Much respect and genuine compliments to you. Perhaps with time and practice I may be able to improve our approach some. So far all we occasionally do is gold lettering placed into carved plaques and signs as part of the painting program. In the past I also occasionally repaired guided picture frames as part of the framing trade. Your handling is inspiring.
Great video. Thank you
@@andrewlm5677 you're welcome 😊
Well done. Brilliant explanation and loads of patience.
THANK YOU! My confidence in gilding seems much more tangible now. 🙌🙏
SO glad I found you! I've been wanting to gold leaf a few frames that were painted with radiator paint in the 40's. I have real gold leaf & fake gold leaf. My great uncle was a pro and I inherited all his supplies. Wish I had learned from him but I wasn't interested at the time, but I think if I watch & rewatch you I 'll be able to do this. Thank you.
Fab. I've been oil gilding on stone and metal for years but recently taught myself to water gild so I could collaborate on an antique frame restoration (which i'm still in the process of completing). Your recent videos have popped up at almost exactly the same times that I've been applying the same processes (glue, gesso, bole, water gilding...) and have been really helpful and reassuring. It's been a steep and often frustrating learning curve but I'm am thoroughly enjoying it and the results make all the months of research and weeks of prep totally worthwhile. Thanks again Ruth :)
😁 you're welcome Leigh, hope you're enjoying the processes. R
Brilliant video, wonderful teacher. Thanks Ruth.
Ohh this was good. I just bought some gold leaf from the supermarket, it’s used for confectionary and so I had a stab at it. All the difficulties inherent in its nature revealed itself biggly. Cannot wait to tool up and go through your entire back catalogue Ruth, many thanks, really looking forward to meeting this demanding craft head on now.😊
Thank you 😊
Great teaching video with all the tips & tricks, I enjoy crafting it’s not as skilled but I love watching people who are good at what they do also watch you on Drew Pritchard videos.
Thank you for this wonderful beginners guide.
Thanks Ruth for guiding us through it is a great help for me
Thank you Ruth for this super video. I am a person.....when I SEE this , and i practicize it 3 times , it is OK. I learn it myself, this most difficult way of guilding and it works!!!! It makes me verry happy. Thank you so much.
An absolutely fantastic video. Thank you so much for all the details. Hope to watch you in the future.
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.
thank you so much for sharing this long time hidden secret...it is a game changer for sure.
Fabulous video, Ruth. Thank you for sharing your wealth of knowledge and experience!
You're welcome 😊
What an excellent tutorial. I'm doing a bit of crafting tomorrow so was looking for the basics but you have opened my eyes to the craftswomanship of guiding.
Thank you.
No wonder I couldn’t get started.
First time i saw guys gilding with leaf was outside on a busy road.
I watched and thought yeah thats easy .
Now 40 years later just got around to trying it myself. Im used to picking up skills easily: not this time.
Good teacher btw . Feels like you’re talking to me not a room full of half listeners
Thank you. It's hard to control the leaf, but once you get that bit, gilding is nice. The oil gilding that you watched years ago is easier to do.
@@RuthTappinGilder right now if I could pull off a foot long pin stripe : id be over the moon. Im hoping A S Handover gold size 3 hours is correct. Coz dat wot eyes got . Fingers crossed
Video was very helpful for newbies such as myself, thank you for taking the time to show others your skill and techniques, I especially appreciated the parts where you demonstrate common problems and the solutions everyone will deal with at some point.
Thanks Ruth for your videos, they are so helpful! I've had several attempts at water gilding but never happy with the result. You've given me courage to keep at it!
Thank you for your instruction…very useful as I try it with my next project.
Always love your segments on The Restorers, and I love your work. I wish we had more talented restorers like you in Canada. I have so much gilding work needed for various pieces.
Thank you 😊 love doing the pieces for The Restorers. I'm starting to make the full teaching videos so we may be able to turn you into a good gilder! 😁
Thank u for sharing soo much in detail selflessly
Oh my! I didnt know it was this difficult..they show it so easy on videos..thank you for this video..
Wow! Thank you Ruth! You're so awesome in your craft! I will surely apply this technique. Thank you.
Superb video - thanks so much, Ruth. it's lovely watching you work so expertly. 💛
What a lovely video. Thank you.
Thanks 😊.
Thanks!
@@lbarense thank you 😊
Great video- thank you for the detailed explanations!!
Thank you for making this video.
That helps out significantly. Thank you very much.
"A bit of gold for you."
Touches brush to face, "A little bit of gold for me." 😂
Thanks a million for showing in depth tutorial. You made it look so easy. ❤
Thank you for sharing your knowledge, you are a wonderful teacher🙏🏻😊
Thank you 🙏 Thank you 🙏 Thank you! 🙏🌹
Gracias! So kind and professional!
thank you for all your tips...Cheers
Cool texture. And we learned from all your efforts. Thank you :)
What a superb video! Thank you so much! LOVE the fact you use IPA - it saves my vodka and is particularly appropriate because at the beginning of the pandemic I started making hand sanitiser for friends and relatives. Once a cheap commercial version was available I was left with 10 litres of the stuff...... I have sufficient to last me out.
Very helpful, I would like to now the full prep work before you start gilding
Nice tutorial. Never done water gilding but have done a bit of conventional gilding using slow sizing as I was doing relatively large works such as freezes and large capitals. Patience and practice are key.
What a fantastic video - thank you so much!
Thank you so much for this excellent video! I'm new at water gilding and really look forward to "mastering" the art! Well, that's my aim. I've taken 2 courses so far. I've learned so much with your video today. I have not been taught how to apply the gold leaf with a brush, oils on the face etc. How to cut and burnish the leaf etc. I need to buy all your supplies that you were using! I could go on and on but I won't : ) Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!
really a lovely tutorial!
I am just starting one very ornate frame right now.Quite a project for the first time doing. Not sure if I will continue, but I thoroughly enjoyed your presentation. Easy to understand and great tips, thank you. Threasa, California.
How wonderful! Thank you so much for sharing. I want to start a new project and I bought the gold leaf and I wasn't quite sure how I wanted to start it and I'm definitely going to do this.
A superb video. Thank you.
Realy good, I'll try it. Thank you. I would like to see exactly what the burnishing is about?
Sorry I was just concentrating on the gilding in this one. There are videos where I also do burnishing.
Beautiful job
Thank you 😊
Thanks for your video really appreciated
This is really good!! Thank you!!
Thank so much for teaching me!!!
Thanks
Thank you 😊
Superb video, thankyou very much👍
Wow what a great vid, thank you, don't know where this came from but I really enjoyed it, have subscribed.
Great video, thx!
Thank you 😊
I saw you on The Restorers. Cool to see you have a YT channel.
very helpfull, thanks a lot. much appreciated
I love your videos and gain moments of happiness from your lovely work. I am in my late seventies and have a question. Why someone as clever as you is using rabbit skin glue? Please enlighten me. My grandparents told me not to use it as it swells and causes cracking. I look forward to hearing what other glues you use for water gilding. My grandparents just used water. They were not trained gilders but it seemed to work.
You need very little rabbit skin glue in the water, some gilders use gelatine but that is usually for glass gilding. The gilding water is activating all the rabbit skin glue in the bole thats what is holding the gold. The tiny bit of glue in the water helps with the lay lines where the second piece of gold overlaps the first.
You are amazing!
Thank you ' A Great thing to learn..Thanks for sharing
Amazing! Thank you for sharing
Thank you!
Thank you! great information :)
Thanks for sharing 😊
Beauty 😍
Don't be funny I'm guilding. Saw those leafs fly like in an Autumn storm. Youtubing and guilding seems like a tough combo even for one so experienced as you.
Thank you SO much . :)
Primeira vez que vejo este tipo de douração achei interessante e muito bem explicado grato pela linda aula e grato por compartilhar abraços
I would spend hours observing your trade di.. not work ... but trade 😍
I loved how you explained everything slowly and just not showed the steps but the problems that might occurred. I always struggled about dealing with gold leaf and maybe I will give it another trial. My Question is I have ready gilding paste do I dissolve that in water or directly apply? because the instruction does not tell
Usually gold coloured paints are ready to go. If it's wax based you can thin with white spirits.
Its amazing your work and videos, but if you can put automaticaly traductor to your videos it will be so big help you understand you all, for people like me that not understand so great inglish❤❤❤❤
Thanks for watching
You should be able to change the captions from English to another language in the settings on the video.
Thank you so much for showing this film. I am beginner and I want to know exactly the name of the tools that I have to buy. I mean to start with. Glue pencil etc. You explained it very well.🙏
This was so helpful, thank you!
~Just a thought: Perhaps wear a mask so it won't blow away from breathing? (Of course you'll have to remove the mask to blow on the gold, but at least you'd be sure it would only be blown on purposefully.)
I held my breath while watching 😂 that’s the post traumatic guilding syndrome
Sooooo nice
Hi. It’s very useful video. How to protect the gold surface for the future?
Thanks
Alex
No need its gold it won't tarnish