CHICO — The Hotel Diamond is getting a bit of a makeover, or as owner Wayne Cook calls it, “the candle on top of the cake.” A gilder from Washington State, Nancy Thorn, is gilding gold leaf onto the ...
Gilding is the art of spreading gold, either by mechanical or by chemical means, over the surface of an object for the purpose of decoration. The art of gilding was known to the ancient Egyptians and ...