How to apply gold leaf lettering. Kev Elliott Writer Aug 03, 2015. 0:00 / 0:00. ... Heck, I still have the sign from above my first shop door he lettered for me almost three decades ago!

You see, it was my father, Paul Weidner, who created that sign in the front room or our apartment next door at 326. The lettering and the tiger head were all of wood and gold leafed on a granular ...

Mr Haines will spend the next few days bringing the building's unique gold leaf signs back to life. "I just like to use the skill," he said. "You can't compare something done by hand to something ...

When James Tribbett, 81, died on Tuesday, he took an increasingly rare skill with him. Mr. Tribbett was a master at the art of gold-leaf lettering. His grandfather, Harry Saunders, taught him the s… ...