Show GILDERS IN AMERICA la tho reign at IV bent master workmen here it is a tradition among the gilders of this town says the new york sun that they owe their peculiar skill to the redecoration of windsor castle at the command of george IV every available gilder of london was busied for a long time in gilding the palace and when the work was done many of them found that their places in alie trade had been taken by apprentices unable to find work at home many came to america and some established themselves in new york these men taught their art to americans and the gilders of this country are now among the best in the world the trade languished for a time in the face of cheap processes and cheap materials but the taste for first rate gilding whether it be picture frames or furniture or walls has never really gone out the trade has been split up into sub trades and just now the stencil fresco painters are quarreling with the gilders over the question as to which class of artisans shall do the gilding of interior decorations the gilders who regard their trade as an art look upon that of the stencil fres coers as merely mechanical ch anical |