A Short Guide to Buying and Selling Antique Frames Antique, old, and vintage picture frames have become collectable and valuable pieces of art in there own right.Examples of 19th Century composition...
Water gilding is a highly skilled and very labor intensive technique. Each stage in the process is time consuming. The quality of finish is unrivalled and to an expert it is instantly recognizable. Used over...
The practise of storing books flat on the shelves in medieval times probably gave rise to the decoration of the closed book's fore edges as a quick visual method of identifying the volumes. From the Sixteenth...
Liquid Metals When I was first given samples of these Roberson’s Liquid Metal to test, I did wonder if they were what they said they were – metal in liquid form. I spoke with the person who actually made...