Hello everyone,
I was wondering if there are any recipies for making my own Gilders clay bole from scratch?
I read the post about the 19th century gilders clay bole,but information is missing..
Thank you
I read about the clay base,thank you for the reference,i did not know about such a method of gilding. I am searching for a recipe with information on preparing the bole myself,like Brian suggested.
I took a few minutes break from my tenure work to consult my library. I can find no complete recipe. Most, even those quite ancient just mention grinding Armenian bole. I have seen references to adding tallow and in others graphite (this was done to give bole /clay like properties to pure iron oxides) but no complete recipe. Now I did not read through every reference that I have any maybe another MITRA member may be able to chime in.
We have instructions on preparing bole from “scratch” if you start off with a clay base:
Preparing and Applying Base for Gilding
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