Best Gilding Videos – Professional Gilding Tutorials

Learn the craft the easy way—directly from professional and master gilders.

These easy-to-follow gilding videos demonstrate how to apply gold leaf, silver leaf, and metal leaf to a variety of surfaces, including metal, stone, and exterior architectural elements. You’ll also learn how to select and properly use essential gilding tools.

Explore core techniques such as oil size gilding, gilding on metal, ceiling gilding, and the differences between genuine and imitation leaf types, with practical tips you can apply immediately.

This step-by-step educational video series is designed for beginners, intermediate, and advanced gilders, providing clear instruction, professional insights, and proven methods to help you achieve consistent, high-quality results.

Quick Dry Oil Size gilding

Quick Dry oil size gilding - This detailed demonstration shows you how to apply genuine gold, Silver, imitation gold, aluminum and copper leaf to objects and furniture using the classic Quick Dry oil size method.

Different leaf types. Surface leaf, Patent leaf, rolls of leaf

Learn the difference between loose leaf, patent leaf, transfer leaf and ribbon leaf. It's all in the packaging. Quick tutorial from www.gildedplanet.com. Applies to Genuine gold leaf, Silver leaf, imitation gold, imitation Silver, aluminum and copper leaf.

Applying Genuine Gold leaf or Imitation Gold leaf to metal surfaces.

Apply genuine gold, Silver, imitation gold, aluminum and copper leaf metal surfaces. Interior and exterior surfaces, you'll learn about types of adhesive, tacking and drying rates, easy leaf application tips and cleaning and burnishing the leaf.

Antique glazing.

Turn ordinary objects into heirlooms! Creating the 'Classic Antique' glaze finish for objects, furniture, walls and more. This detailed step-by-step tutorial shows how to mix the right colors to create the perfect antiquing solution for any object, furniture, picture frame and more. Brought to you by the folks at swww.artSparx.com.

Exterior gilding for religious ornament

Follow along as Master Gilder Tobias Freccia goes through the process of applying genuine 23.75kt Gold to exterior church ornament. Including metal and stone crosses and architectural elements.

Gilding Ceilings using Ribbon leaf on Rolls

Ribbon leaf application to ceilings and large area wall surface - This detailed demonstration shows you how to apply genuine gold, Silver, imitation gold, aluminum and copper leaf to ceilings and walls using ribbon leaf - or rolls of leaf.

What is the difference between European and Chinese leaf?

Other than cost, is there a difference between Chinese and European metal and gold leaf? - In short, YES. Learn about size, density and packaging differences.

Tools for using Loose Gold, Silver and Metal leaf - FULL TUTORIAL

Understand the 3 primary tools needed to apply Loose Leaf Gold, Silver and Metal leaf to any surface.

Loose Leaf Gold - A book of loose gold leaf is assembled by placing each piece of gold leaf between pieces of thin rouged paper. The gilder can then remove one leaf at a time without disturbing the remaining leaves. It is removed from the book with a gilder's tip, a flat natural hair brush.

Learn about the Gilder's Pad, Gilder's Knife, Gilder's Tip Brush and how to use them to pick up and move pieces of Genuine Gold, Silver and Metal leaf for any gilding project.