Gold Tooling on Leather – Discovery and Learning

- Presentation and exchange around the profession of hand gilding
- Description of the three gilding qualities and their basic techniques
- Practical work for blind tooling, gold tooling, and colour tooling with stamps and fillets on the covers and spine
- Exercises for leather onlay and leather strip technique
- Discovery of the classical title, the long title and the title in Chinese style (creative division, selection of fonts)
- Identification of styles of hand gilding throughout history
- The aim of the course is to get to know the basics of hand gilding and to be able to judge the quality of a gilder's work.