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Animal Skin Glues: Essential Choices for Water Gilding & Gesso Preparation
For artisans practicing traditional water gilding, selecting the right adhesive is crucial to achieving a flawless finish. Our range of high-quality animal-based glues ensures optimal performance for both gesso and clay bole production.
- Animal Hide Glue Sizing is a refined, light-colored glue with a bloom strength of 240, making it ideal for crafting gilder’s gesso. Its high cohesion and odor-free composition provide a reliable base for traditional gilding.
- Rabbit Skin Gilding Size offers a stronger bloom strength of 400, delivering exceptional binding properties. Derived from shaved rabbit skin, this glue is the preferred choice for mixing with gilder’s clay bole, ensuring a durable and flexible surface for gold leaf application
- American Gelatin Glue, a modern alternative, simplifies the gilding process while maintaining the integrity of traditional techniques. With no soaking, batching, or long preparation times, this easy-to-use glue delivers strength equivalent to rabbit skin glue and produces a superior burnish, helping gilders achieve the high-shine finish they desire.
Animal Hide Glue Sizing
For traditional water gilding & Gesso production
Hide Glue is produced from various animal skins and is light in color, has a high cohesion and has no odor. It is highly refined, consistent, processed and formed into small cubes. Hide glue has a bloom strength of 240 and is highly recommended for making gilder’s gesso.
Visit our step-by-step on How to prepare Hide Glue and Gesso Preparation.
Note: Hide Glue is an organic material and will naturally vary in color, texture and granular shape from batch to batch.
Images on this website are representational only as actual colors may vary.
| HG31503/1
$ 32.00 Granular German - 1 lb |
Hide Glue | |
| HG31503/5
$ 104.00 Granular German - 5 lb |
Hide Glue | |
| HG31503/10
$ 203.00 Granular German - 10 lb |
Hide Glue | |
| HG31503/55
$ 1,750.00 Granular German - 55 lb |
Hide Glue |
Rabbit Skin Gilding Size
For traditional water gilding & Clay Bole production
Rabbit skin glue is produced mainly from shaved skin parts of rabbits, has extremely high cohesion properties, and has distinctive color and odor. Similar to Hide Glue, it is highly refined, consistent, processed and formed into small cubes. Rabbit Skin Glue has a Bloom strength of 400 making it much stronger than Hide Glue and is recommended for mixing with gilder’s clay to make gilder’s Bole.
Visit our step-by-step on How to prepare Rabbit Skin Glue and Gesso Preparation.
Note: Rabbit Skin Glue is an organic material and will naturally vary in color, texture and granular shape from batch to batch.
Images on this website are representational only as actual colors may vary.
| RSG330/1
$ 32.00 Granular German - 1 lb |
Rabbit Skin Glue | |
| RSG330/5
$ 104.00 Granular German - 5 lb |
Rabbit Skin Glue | |
| RSG330/10
$ 203.00 Granular German - 10 lb |
Rabbit Skin Glue | |
| RSG330/55
$ 1,050.00 Granular German - 55 lb |
Rabbit Skin Glue |
American Gelatin Glue
.Used to create Gesso and Clay Bole for the Traditional Water Gilding Method.
Visit our step-by-step on How to prepare American Gelatin Glue using the Santa Fe method.
The high quality glue that produces a super burnish. Easy to prepare, this natural glue makes glue equal in strength to the traditional rabbit skin glues. A new gelatin glue made from animal products maintains the natural composition of traditional water gilding, but saves time and produces a better burnish! Simple to use. Just add water, mix what you need and heat. No soaking. No making batches. No storing. Consistent and dependable, it produces the shine all gilders strive to achieve. The new gelatin glue is equal in strength to rabbit skin glue. Your personal style of gilding may cause the ratios to be adjusted and a few simple tests will lead to outstanding results. Visit our step-by-step on How to prepare American Gelatin Glue using the Santa Fe method.
| 25BG/1
$ 38.50 Gelatin Glue - 1 lb |
Gelatin Glue | |
| 25BG/5
$ 170.00 Gelatin Glue - 5 lb |
Gelatin Glue | |
| 25BG/10
$ 280.00 Gelatin Glue - 10 lb |
Gelatin Glue | |
| 25BG/100
$ 1,750.00 Gelatin Glue - 100 lb |
Gelatin Glue |
Gelatin Glue size for Glass Gilding
Visit our step-by-step on How to prepare Gelatin Size diamond sheets for gilding on glass.
Platinum white gelatin sheets are the alternate to 00 gelatin capsules. Each sheet is embossed with 80 diamonds. A two diamond section is equal to one 00 gelatin capsule and, when placed in one half pint of water, it will make an average strength batch of gelatin glue size.
| GE/10
$ 15.00 Gelatin Glue - 10 Diamond sheets |
Gelatin Glue | |
| GE/500
$ 67.50 Gelatin Glue - 1/2 kilo |
Gelatin Glue | |
| GE/K
$ 97.00 Gelatin Glue - 1 kilo |
Gelatin Glue |
Product Description
- Animal Hide Glue Sizing is a refined, light-colored glue with a bloom strength of 240, making it ideal for crafting gilder’s gesso. Its high cohesion and odor-free composition provide a reliable base for traditional gilding.
- Rabbit Skin Gilding Size offers a stronger bloom strength of 400, delivering exceptional binding properties. Derived from shaved rabbit skin, this glue is the preferred choice for mixing with gilder’s clay bole, ensuring a durable and flexible surface for gold leaf application
- American Gelatin Glue, a modern alternative, simplifies the gilding process while maintaining the integrity of traditional techniques. With no soaking, batching, or long preparation times, this easy-to-use glue delivers strength equivalent to rabbit skin glue and produces a superior burnish, helping gilders achieve the high-shine finish they desire.
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Gilders Tip Brush
For use with Loose Leaf gold. Various sizes. Allows you to pick up look leaf gold sheets and move the gold to the gilding surface without the need to touch the leaf.
22Kt Gold Leaf
This popular leaf is available as packs of 500 lvs, books of 25 leaves, on ribbon gold leaf.
Dux Quick Dry Oil size - gilding adhesive
This solvent based oil size is available in variuos sizes. Self leveling for a high quality finish. Quick size comes to 'tack' in approx. 1 - 1 1/2 hours and has an open time for up to 3 hours.
2" Gilder's Squirrel mop brush
Ultra soft squirrel hair brush - ideal for polishing gilded surfaces. With a range of sizes, this brush is ideal for removing skewings after the gilding process.