The behind the scenes film featuring British designer, sign artist and glass gilder David A. Smith MBE, creating an ornamental, handcrafted advertising glass sign for the world famous vintage barbershop Ludlow & Blunt based in Brooklyn, New York has finally been released and you can watch it below! This piece of art was designed and …
BLAG (Better Letters Magazine) is an online and brand new print publication about everything sign painting, featuring history, projects and most importantly the people involved with the craft. BLAG is the latest project by Sam Roberts, creator of Ghostsigns and Better Letters who is well known for managing events, writing books and being an ever …
The history of Handover regularly brings up some beautiful objects, old labels, discontinued brushes, but nothing quite like these letterpress plates from the late 1940s. Found by our brushmaker carefully wrapped in paper – including some advertising window posters from both King George and Queen Victoria’s corronations. These are the original blocks used for making …
Brush Guide – Sign Writing Chisels Here at Handover we have a lot of brushes, and that can be quite overwhelming when you come to buy your first signwriting brushes! This post is the start of a series where I will explain the differences between each of our brushes so you can make the right …
A History of Handover – link >
Having a clear out of our brushmaking warehouse recently, we came across these fantastic printing plates. The box they were in simply said “Printer’s bookplates” so we guess they were used for printing a catalogue – possibly litho printed, but we aren’t sure! A couple of the smaller ones were used for parts of this: …
Charlotte Wormley-Healing, Manager of A. S. Handover, talks to Sign Update Magazine… What hair is used in signwriting brushes? The ideal fill for a signwriting brush would be a fine hair with a sharp point and plenty of spring so that it responds to the writer’s touch. It is also important that the hair is …
Learn to Pinstripe with master pinstriper Tino Blasco and Mr. Brush Urethane Pinstriping Paints (available to buy here). This is a one day course where you can learn all you might need you need to know about pinstriping if you’re a beginner, or even brush up on your skills if you’ve done it before! The course …
One day pinstriping course with Tino Blasco on the 29th April. Read More »
The newest innovation that is a must-have for gilders that gild on flat surfaces, glass, or rounded surfaces. In July 2013, professional gilder Nancy Thorn, along with nine other gilders, was contracted to restore the Legion of Honor’s 18th-century French period room, the Salon Doré of the Hôtel de la Trémoille. Nancy created a special …
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