Frame Restoration

New and old frames can be cleaned and repaired. Missing elements can be remodelled and replaced. Frames can be entirely re-gilded, patched with gold leaf or painted and toned.

Salvaging pieces from an early nineteenth century carved and gilded softwood frame

Modelling a new edge for a nineteenth century carved and gilded softwood frame.

An early nineteenth century frame before treatment.

Preparatory layers of bole are put on and burnished.

Cleaning a late eighteenth century frame that has been overpainted with gold paint.

Filling fissures with gesso on a gilded fourteenth century Italian panel.

After cleaning and repair.

The frame is gilded, burnished and toned.

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