Show GILDERS IN AMERICA circumstances la 1 tb the of georgo IV that sent muter blaster work bere he it is a tradition among the gude gilders 61 0 this town says the new york SU sun that they owe their peculiar sl skill rl Us tx the redecoration of windsor castle at the command of george IV ayery E ve available gilder of london was busied b for a long time in gilding the palace and when the work was done many of them found that their places in the trade had been taken by apprentices unable to find work at home many came ca me to america and some established til themselves em selves 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 lani for a time in the face of cheap processes and cheap materials but the taste for firs tra 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 pa infers are quarreling with the gilders over the question as to which class of artisan s shall dothe gilding of decorations the gilders gil deri who regard their trade as an art look upon that of the stencil fresco fres coers era as merely mechanical ch I 1 anical |