ICON BOARDS

Secret of boards to icon longevity is their proper workmanship. Offered boards are made of hardwood in the following way:

Seasoned and dried linden, alder, sycamore or poplar wood thick from 2,0 to 2,5 cm.
Reinforcement of panel is made of oak wood or other tough hardwood.
Panel is impregnated on both sides by rabbit skin glue and preserved with glued canvas.
Panel is grounded with hand-prepped traditional mix of rabbit skin glue plus gilding and bolonese chalk, that mixture is applied in 12 coats.
The ground is smoothed with sandpaper to suitable surface for painting in egg tempera.
To gilding it is necessary to smooth ground with microgrit sandpaper P1200 or P2000.