Contemporary Use of Gesso in Manuscript Gilding
Join Barbara as she demonstrates how she uses ancient methods and materials to create contemporary manuscripts, and discuss her incredible gilding techniques.
Barbara’s Recommended List of Suppliers
Precious metal leaf: Sepp Leaf Products Inc. 3801 Park Avenue South, NYC
Gilding supplies and recipes: Jerry Tresser
Pigments: Kremer Pigments, NYC
Vellum: Talas
Nichiban masking tape: Art supply stores and Amazon
New York artist Barbara Wolff, one of today’s foremost manuscript illuminators, has exhibited at the Yeshiva University Museum, and most recently at the Morgan Library and Museum. She has produced several films on the technique of manuscript illumination and her contemporary use of the artist’s techniques of the great illuminated Medieval and Renaissance manuscripts.