Stonehouses

With a reputation stretching back over 20 years Brien Nicholson Ltd is one of Scotland's leading providers of professional bespoke framing and gilding services, and Wrights of Lymm have had the pleasure of supplying them with their Gold Leaf for a number of years.  Their clients include many of Edinburgh's best known artists and galleries as well as corporate and...

Wrights of Lymm supplied our long standing friend and customer, David Kynaston with 23.5ct Extra Thick Gold Leaf for the stunning restoration of Queens Park suspension bridge in Chester.  The heraldic crests of the seven Norman Earls of Chester along with the ancient and modern versions of the Chester Arms grace the Queen's Park Suspension Bridge in Chester. Cast out of...

Wrights of Lymm are pleased to have recently supplied Judy with 24ct Extra Thick Loose Gold Leaf which was used to create these wonderful pieces of work, celebrating the Magna Carta.   This vellum acknowledges the debt our modern world owes to the beginnings of democracy 800 years ago in 1215. The central images refer to King John, who, amongst...

Nobody knows when that first moment in history was, when the first gold ingot was made of gold ore. Since when mankind realised the true features of this soft, yellow metal and mesmerised by it. Obviously first, solid statues were cast of it. Tools and technologies for manufacturing were yet too simple. The first mention about Gold Leaf like material...