Clay Bole by Sinopia

We are pleased to announce that Sinopia’s Clay Bole is now available. This high quality Clay Bole is developed for Traditional Water Gilding.

The Traditional Water Gilding Technique allows the artist to lay gold leaf onto a soft clay ground that has been prepared with a natural glue, such as Rabbit Skin Glue. While this technique requires a little extra more work than the convenient size gilding, the advantage of water gilding is the fact that the gold can be burnished to a high gloss finish, after the gold has been applied to the soft poliment ground.

The Sinopia Clay Boles are manufactured in the United States and have undergone years of development and field testing. Sinopia’s clay bole line consists of standard colors, such as, red, yellow, white, black, green and blue as well as several more. Recently the Sinopia Test Kitchen has developed two historical clays: The Classic French Red & Yellow. These colors emulate clay colors that were common in France up until the 1970's. Sinopia was able to secure actual samples of these historical clays and match the hues. They are also currently working on other historical colors that will be released soon.