Crushed egg shells, gilding with egg whites.
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- Опубліковано 20 гру 2022
- Advent gilding day 21. Making a hen pattern with crushed egg shells. Trying gilding with egg whites for the first time without a recipe.
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WOW!! All that work with the pieces of egg shell. Yet it turned out beautifully. BRAVO!
Thank you 😊
I enjoyed the journey of experimentation. And the finished decoration was very good.
Amazing video! Thank you Ruth for this precious gift♥️
Honestly Ruth, you have the patience of a saint 😇
What a shame it didn’t work out the way you hoped.
I wouldn’t give up on the eggshells though. There must be a better way and it would look amazing.
Mind you, who’s got all day? I guess it would have to be something really special to spend so much time on.
Hey, we’re always learning right? 🥰
I think it turned out great! It could be a game ornament to keep the kids busy like I spy a hen in my Christmas tree.
This has nothing to do with gilding, but during the Art Deco era, some furniture artists used eggshell for table tops and countertops. I saw an large exhibit a long time ago in a gallery in NYC. (I don't remember if the eggshells were applied to any vertical surfaces.)
The bits of shell were not placed one-by-one like Ms Tappin did it, but large pieces of shell were pressed into whatever the adhesive was so that you could readily see one whole section of eggshell in small pieces where it butted up against another large section in small pieces.
The shells were then sealed of course. It was really a lovely effect, very mosaic-like, with the slight color differences in the eggshells. The furniture was very expensive and highly collectable at the time. It was the only time I have ever seen its like.
I just did a quick 'net search, but couldn't find any furniture. I did see a small, straight-sided vase 5" high x 3" diameter, black lacquer stripe outside and in the interior. It is French, c 1920, and is being sold for $2,400 US! Niche market for those of you with lots of eggs hanging about?
I looked into it as a decorative finish a few years ago. It's faster to lay bigger pieces and then crack them. This was unfortunately too small to do that so it took hours 😬 but a lovely finish.
texture is nice, like a mosaic
Interesting!
Turned out nice! Very good.
These videos have really been incredibly helpful. Like little five or ten minute tutorials in every gilding technique imaginable.
Just zapped me back 45 years to doing this under the tutor,John Henry Windsor. Class full of 18 year old cockney numbskulls and eggs. That was the best idea 💡.
I'm so impressed with your patience. I think I would have cracked it a lot more from throwing it across the room :-) I couldn't believe it when you said you were going to do the rest of the egg after finishing the french hen. Well done for persevering and experimenting. Really appreciating your videos x
Something I love about art is how I can get lost in time because I'm enjoying the process so much. Did that happen to you during this experiment? I am also wondering if someone with chickens developed this idea because eggs shells were free. Like the making of an American quilt in days gone by because the women had scraps of fabric left from dressmaking. Maybe originally, egg shell art was painted because gilding it with gold seems unlikely. I do like the way it turned out. It is quite pretty. By the way, a dozen and a half eggs were selling for 15.00 USA in my local grocery store last week. They were 3.59 a year ago.
I did enjoy the creative side of doing these decisions. Things like sticking the shell on where is repetitive I'm ok with, but thats probably because I'm usually listening to an audio book.
The cost of everything here is so high too.
Hey Ruth, Thank you for another cool video with a pretty outcome! What a nice mosaic.
Just the other day I was reading on gilding with egg whites and the really festive part seems to be that you let those egg whites sit until they’re good and rotten and then you use them. Yikes, that must‘ve smelled bad back then. Anyways, thanks for your videos and a happy Christmas!
I left it out of the fridge for a week but the workshop is that cold it made no difference 🙄❄
I love experimenting, never quite know how it will end up, could it work mixing alcohol in with the egg? Hmmm, maybe not, might end up with egg nog!! Thanks for another great video
You’re an extraordinarily patient woman.
Will the gilding stay on, or will it start to flake off at some point?
I don't think it will, but will keep an eye on it.
Oh well……….thanks for the vid.