Re: [BKARTS] Gild lines without stamps?

["f.wolper" <f.wolper@xxxxxxx>]

Hi,

thanks for your answers, but I think, this won't work. I know the Ascona 
Tool, but I believe, it is made to make an impressions to the leather, 
not to gild it. The tool has to be slid across the leather, and this 
won't work, because I have to apply fly gold leave. Aside from that 
there are a lot of onlays which are framed by the lines, so I need to 
see the lines.
Is there any cold tooling technique I cold use? What kind of glue would 
I need to apply to stick the gold to the leather?

Florian

Signa Houghteling:
> Have you heard of the Ascona Tool?  P & S makes a splendid one.  It is a
> gilding tool for free lines.  Firmly attach a copy of your drawing (on
> something like vellum-paper) to the cover,  over gold printing tape, and
> with small lines--so that the tool remains hot enough to be effective--draw
> your way through it.  There are numerous mistakes to be made along the way,
> but trial and error, trial and error and steady as you go.  You may decided
> finally that going the regular way with all those gouges is actually easier.
>
> Signa
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> f.wolper
> Sent: Tuesday, January 02, 2007 1:50 AM
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> Subject: Gild lines without stamps?
>
>
> Hi and happy new year!
>
> Is there any way to gild curved lines, when the gouges don't fit? I
> would like to reproduce a drawing on a leather coverd book without
> simplifying the lines and I don't want to use painted gold.
>
> Any idea?
>
> Greetings
>
> Florian Wolper

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