Vintage Van custom paint work restoration using both one shot paint and 23ct Gold Leaf , both One Shot Paint and Gold Leaf are available now on our website.

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A pair of lost Japanese folding screens portraying the 1614 winter campaign of the Siege of Osaka have been brought back to life after painstaking work to reproduce them, including their original colours, using digital technology and an artisanal touch.

The restored artefact is a left-and-right pair of six-panel folding screens. The two painted sections are about 6 meters wide and about 1.7 meters high in total when they are placed side by side.

Under the supervision of experts, the project members restored the original colours with the help of digital technology. After an image was printed on paper, artisans manually placed gold leaf and silver leaf and other materials on it to give it a 3-D look. It took one and a half years to complete the work.  

 

 

The Golden Gates underwent a full major restoration by Hall Conservation Ltd, starting in September 2018 and was completed in June 2019. Cast by Coalbrookdale in 1862, the gates were originally designed for the international Exhibition and potentially for Queen Victoria’s Sandringham home in Norfolk. Unfortunately, her majesty was diverted from their trade stand, as clearly visible through the gates was a cast iron statue of Oliver Cromwell. Coalbrookdale had found it difficult to find an alternative market for the gates on this scale and they went into storage for over thirty years. 

 

In 1895, Frederick Monks, a councillor of Warrington and a partner of one of the country’s leading manufacturers of iron and steel, bought the gates and gifted them to Warrington Town Hall. 

 

The gates were last worked on in 1979 by Campbell Smith & Co. It was then that they were gilded and became iconic as ’The Golden Gates’. Before the works begun in 2018 the gates were severely corroded and structurally unsound. All painting and gilding had failed, castings were missing and loose.

 

The work involved dismantling the gates entirely and transporting them to the Hall Conservation Ltd workshop in London. Months of cleaning, conserving, repairing and recasting took place before any painting and gilding. Once all items were painted and gilded, they were then transported back to Warrington and re-installed in time for Walking Day on the 28th June, a celebration which happens annually to mark the opening of the gates.

       

  

Shop Window gilded using 24ct gold leaf and one shot signwriting enamels. The window was gilded using traditional gilding techniques.

 

20^th Century carousel horse perfectly restored by hand using traditional gilding techniques. The horse was restored using 24ct Gold Leaf. 24ct Gold Leaf is available on our website on the following page.

 

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Ceiling Gilded using 24ct Gold Leaf, the ceiling was gilded by hand using 40,000 sheets of 24ct Gold Leaf. The 24ct Gold Leaf gives the ceiling a beautiful reflective appearance. 24ct Gold Leaf is available now on our website on the following page.

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Barber Shop Glass Window gilded by hand using 24ct Gold Leaf. The window was gilded using traditional glass gilding techniques.

 

The Emirates Palace Hotel stretches more than one kilometre from east to west, which cost more than $3 billion to build and opened in 2005. Has recently had it’s ceiling renovated using 23ct Gold Leaf and Silver Leaf.

The ceiling is approximately 2,000 square meters of ornate ceiling and is gilded with 23ct Gold Leaf and Silver Leaf. The ceiling needs about 50 gold leaves to cover one square meter of ceiling.

 

Friend of Wrights of Lymm and professional gilder Scott Telford of Telfer Graphics has just completed an impressive renovation of 290 Gate Spikes at the national trust property Tatton House in Knutsford. The job was completed using 23.5ct Gold Leaf and Le Franc 3 hr gold size. The job was completed by 2 men over 4 days. The main gates at Tatton House are also due to be refurbished and gilded in the next couple of months.

 

Long time friend of Wrights of Lymm Gabrielle Boyle is running open workshop exhibition’s on Icons and religious works using Gold Leaf. The demonstrations will take place between 16^th and 27^th July. Please find all of the information relating to the events listed below.