Gilding Restoration
July 10-11

Price: $395

Senior/Student Discount

$355.50

 

Designed for collectors, restorers, homeowners, and dealers alike, this weekend-long workshop will focus on the restoration and conservation of gilded surfaces including frames, furniture, and architectural elements. We will review the basics of traditional water gilding and oil gilding techniques. Emphasis will be placed on identifying different types of gilding, including toned silver leaf gilding. Tools and materials will be reviewed. Replacement of missing ornamental elements through molding and casting techniques will be demonstrated. The visual integration of losses will be discussed as well as appropriate materials and techniques for toning and application of patina.

 

Participants are encouraged to bring a gilded object to the workshop. Professional touch up kits, brushes, tools, and gilding materials will be available for optional purchase.

 

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Senior/Student Discount

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Senior/Student Discount

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“We had a fabulous time at the class and we now have the tools -or some of them- to have professional disagreements whenever we come across a frame that may be gilded or painted. We are better for the experience you have provided and we are already talking about building ourselves a studio to work in.”

 

Ken and Joyce Burke

Claremont, NH

"Just wanted to let you know that I just bought an old Weber piano that was made in 1898. I'm so excited that I have the equipment that you gave me to be able to clean the finish. For a person who doesn't like antiques, I am getting quite a collection. I have two now."

 

A. Gucwa

Niantic, CT

Fallon & Wilkinson, LLC is a furniture conservation firm founded in 2000 by principal conservators, Tad D. Fallon and Randy S. Wilkinson. Both were trained at the Smithsonian Institution’s prestigious Furniture Conservation Training Program and completed conservation fellowships at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Preservation Society of Newport County, and the Mystic Seaport Museum, respectively.  Fallon & Wilkinson, LLC bring a combined 20 years of training and experience to the care and conservation of furniture, wooden artifacts, and interior woodwork, blending old world craftsmanship with modern conservation practices. The firm also provides museum quality reproduction furniture to museums and private clients.
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