Helm Crests
An exploration of making functional crests and their use in the fifteenth century.
Tuesday, 10 June 2014
Leather helm crest: Part 13 Painting and mounting
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The crest had a layer of gesso sottile painted on. It would have been possible to add further layers, though I only used 2 layers on this ...
Wednesday, 27 November 2013
Interesting Cennini references
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http://www.noteaccess.com/Texts/Cennini/index.htm Section one Chapter XVI "get a leaf of druggists' glue, not fish glue,...
Leather Helm Crest: Part 12 Applying Gesso grosso
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Here is what Cennini suggests you do to apply gesso to the leather structure. 1. size it two or three times Done. 2. mix gesso grosso ...
Sunday, 24 November 2013
Leather Helm Crest: Part 11 Applying Gesso grosso
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The leather crest has been sized twice and has dried with a smooth, shiny surface. To make gesso grosso I used equal parts water and plaster...
Monday, 18 November 2013
Leather Helm Crest: Part 10 "...size it..."
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After rehydrating the hide glue, it was left for a day. This is how I prepared the crest for gesso by sizing it (painting it with size/glue)...
Sunday, 17 November 2013
Leather Helm Crest: Part 9 A bowl of tow
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I have prepared a bowl of tow to mix into gesso grosso. The rope I used was jute, with a synthetic strand bundle (the dark green bundle of f...
Leather Helm Crest: Part 8 Tow
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In returning to an old question I had asked about tow, Cennini has the following to say on preparing gesso grosso: 'CLXIX How to Mo...
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