Water Gilding Companion Course

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Making Tools

Making a bole polisher tutorial

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Easy step by step tutorial for how to make a BOLE POLISHER, essential tool for shining the bole which is the layer of Armenian earth underneath the gold to be burnished. MATERIALS NEEDED: thick stippling brush a ball of hemp string a nail a pair of scissors 1.5 metres of open weave bandage some rabbit…