Designed for collectors, restorers, homeowners, and dealers alike, this weekend-long workshop will focus on new gilding for frames, furniture, and architectural elements. Beginners and intermediate gilders are welcome. We will delve into the basics of traditional water gilding and oil gilding techniques. Tools and materials will be reviewed and students will get hands-on practice in both methods, including the making and use of rabbit skin glue, gesso, bole, gilding liquor, gold leaf, and Dutch metal. Appropriate materials and procedures for toning and application of patina will be discussed as well.

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 45 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.

Participants are encouraged to bring a small ungilded object to the workshop or can gild a 4x6 frame that will be provided by Fallon & Wilkinson. Students may bring their own tools, but a gilder’s tool kit ($110.00) and professional touch up kits, brushes, tools, and gilding materials will be available for optional purchase.

The workshop fee is $425.00 for both days, including lunch, a 4x6 frame, 1 book of gold, and other materials. Pre-registration is required. The workshop will be held on Saturday, Feb 6, (9.00am-4.00pm) and Sunday, February 7, 2010 (10.00am-4.00pm) at our newly constructed studio in Baltic, CT.

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