About Us Our family business is dedicated to demystifying mirrors.
We began as Stained Glass Ltd. in the 80's searching for the lost origins of the double-sided gold mirrored glass that is unique to Chicago's Historic Bungalow stained glass windows. Close examination showed that this gold glass was not gold leaf, silvered amber glass or gold ceramic glaze.
After many trips to many libraries (in the pre-internet days) and many phone calls, we found Ri...
Blown Glass Mirror Kit Video Silver the inside of a Blown Glass Object English Transcription of Video:
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Hi, thanks for stopping by Angel Gilding. I'm Alix, and today we are going to be mirroring a blown glass object, in particular these beautiful blown glass pumpkins. Now as you can see, I went ahead and mirrored this piece already. I used our silver mirror, but I did some fun techniques here. You can see a little bit of it from here, but if you wanted some up clo...
New Silver Antiquing Series Part: 3 Video Part three of six: PFC Crustals English Transcription of Video:
Hi, thanks for stopping by Angel Gilding. I'm Alix,
And today we are continuing on with our new Silver and Ticking series. We are now into part three, which is PFC Crystals. Our first video, we introduced the process of antiquing a mirror and worked with Baso. Our second part was all about l S gel. Four different ways to do that and today we are going to be delving in...
How To Antique an Aluminum Mirror Video Create a gentle metallic finish that pairs beautifully with mirroring. English Transcription of Video:
Hi thanks for stopping by Angel Gilding I'm Alix and today I'm really excited to show you a way to antique a mirror that you've purchased from a store this is a pretty straightforward process pretty much anybody can do it and we're going to show you step by step just how to get a really nice gentle antiquing effect with just a few pro...
Treating Mirror Waste Video Learn how to safely and easily dispose of mirror waste water English Transcription of Video:
Hi guys. Alix here from Angel Gilding. I've just finished up my most recent mirroring project and I noticed that my waste treatment bucket here has gotten pretty full. So I thought this was a good opportunity for me to show you the waste treatment process. Now it's really important that you take the time to treat your mirror waste. There are heavy metals w...
Vinyl Mask and Mirroring Video Learn how to further protect your mirror from tarnishing English Transcription of Video:
Hi, thanks for stopping by Angel Gilding. I'm Alix, and today we're going to be working with Vinyl Mask to make some really unique mirrored glass art. Now, when I started working with vinyl, I felt pretty intimidated. I thought that it was going to be a very complex process and I really prepared myself for the worst, but I've got to say I was pretty surpris...
Creating a Natural Antique Effect on a Mirror - RT Antique- Transcript Page Speaker 1 (00:11):
Hi, thanks for stopping by in Angel Gilding. I'm Alix and I'm here today to show you our brand new antiquing product. RT Antique is a concentrated liquid that's both safe as well as easy to use to antique a freshly silver mirror. This finish, I think, gives you the closest that you can possibly get to that natural antiquing that mother nature can provide for us over a long period of time,...
