Professional Brushes for Gilding and Decorative Finishes

Gilders tips, mops, artist brushes, and detail tools for leaf, paint, adhesive size and sealers.

The right brush makes gilding and finishing work easier and more consistent. This section gathers professional-grade brushes for lifting and laying leaf, softening and blending, applying sizes, paints, glazes, and varnishes.

Explore specialist gilders tips and mops alongside versatile sash and detail brushes so you can build a kit that matches your projects. From fine art projects, frames and signage to furniture and walls.

Types of Brushes Available:

Squirrel Hair Brushes: Ideal for delicate gilding work, squirrel hair brushes offer softness and precision. Ideal for cleaning gold and silver leaf after application.

Goat Hair Brushes: Known for their durability and versatility, goat hair brushes are great as softening brushes and cleaning Imitation Gold, Imitation Silver and Copper leaf.

Ox Hair Brushes: Ox hair brushes provide a balance of stiffness and flexibility, making them suitable for both fine details and broader strokes.

Sable Brushes: Renowned for their superior quality and fine points, sable brushes are essential for detailed fine art painting and precision gilding.

Brush Styles:

Flat Mop Brushes: Perfect for larger flat areas, moldings and flat to relatively flat surfaces. Great for large surface areas.

Round Mop Brushes: These brushes are ideal for blending and softening edges. Round mops are great for detailed objects, ornamental frames and furniture, and any surface with hard to get to recesses.

Gilder's Tip Brushes: Specifically designed for picking up and laying down gold leaf, gilder's tip brushes ensure precise and efficient gilding.

Sable and Quill Fine Art Brushes: These brushes offer exceptional control and detail, making them ideal for fine art painting and intricate gilding work.

Gesso Stipple Brushes: Used for creating textured surfaces, gesso stipple brushes are perfect for preparing canvases and other surfaces for painting and gilding.

Why Choose Our Brushes?

Our brushes are crafted with the highest quality materials to provide durability, precision, and excellent performance. Whether you're a professional gilder, a fine artist, or a hobbyist, our extensive selection ensures you find the perfect brush for your project. Enhance your artwork and achieve professional results with our range of specialized brushes.

Featured Product Ideally suited for exterior applications.

Gold Leaf Kits - Oil based

Professional Gilding Kit - 23kt Gold Leaf. Each kit contains: Basic step-by-step instructions, one book 23kt Gold Leaf book (Patent leaf) one 4 oz. bottle of yellow/ochre oil based Gilding Primer, natural hair brush, one 4 oz jar of oil based gilding size, one 4 oz Acrylic Top Coat Sealer, cotton and mixing sticks, wet/dry paper and book of leaf. Solvent-based. Each Gold leaf book contains 25 leaves. Each leaf is 3 3/8" x 3 3/8" square. Approx coverage is 1.7 sqft.

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