With
the term découpage, from the French verb découper
= to cut, we mean that particular technique through which items
can be decorated with images cut off from decorated papers, glued
and "verificate" with different kinds of transparent glues.
It is difficult to indicate a precise birth-date of this particular
technique. However, during the XVI century some furniture and items
decorated with cut paper images and lacquered arrived to Europe
from East. This technique was reinvented and during the XVII century
all the European Courts were crazy about every kind of object decorated
with small "silhouette" pictures. As time goes by furniture,
jambs and different objects were decorated with the decoupage technique,
that is with cut pictures of "ribbons", namely frames,
ribbons, bows, putti and rose windows.
Pictorial
Decoupage Course supports:
wood, tin, glass
Hobby-Gilding Course supports:
wood, glass
All works executed during this course belong to the student
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