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Re: [BKARTS] Query re tooling
I have restored such items and basically you just roll a line of Gold
in classic hand tooling style next to each other on a piece of leather.
On a recent Music box job, there I had to replace a side panel, it
required 143 Lines of a 1.5 mm Roll with a gap of 3 mm.
You can also have a plate engraved and just stamp it, but close
examination on my part seemed hand tooled to me, as a stamped line
looks more mechanical, aside I've seen nicks in lines which repeated
themselves in a regular pattern which gives you the diameter of the
Roll used.
Only because it seems outlandish to us nowadays to do such a job by
hand, we shall not forget that our forebearers in the Trade were
accomplished craftsman and in their time found it a good days work just
to roll Lines.
Brocade papers:
I've several in my collection, full sheets and partials.
The color is painted, the gold is leaf gold, and i think it is press
into the size before the size is completely dry.
Any one who prints letterpress and has gilded type or ornaments on the
press, knows immediately the difference between powered and leafed
gold.
I've recreated Brocade papers in such manner.
charles
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On Mar 3, 2004, at 12:23 PM, Douglas Sanders wrote:
Is it possible that what you are describing is generally known as Dutch
Gilt or Brocade paper? Rather than being tooled, they were created
with
rollers/presses. I think there are other techniques where an
adhesive/paste was printed first, then leaf applied on top. Info can
be
found at: http://palimpsest.stanford.edu/don/dt/dt1131.html
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The Koninklijke Bibliotheek (National Library of the Netherlands) has a
very large collection of such papers. Perhaps they have a catalog
available for purchase.
Douglas Sanders
Conservator
Indiana Historical Society
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I am a new member, with a query on tooling on linen and paper (not=20
leather). On 17th C embroidered boxes, it is common to find tooled=20
linen or paper lining. Sometimes this is blind tooled, sometimes gold.
In one example, there seems to have been some kind of printing process
used, with a thick resinous ink and fleuron-like stamps.
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