We use both gilt and gilded. Many of our
curators use gilt as a noun, as in “silver and silver gilt”, “gilding”,
as well as “gilded and polychromed wood”
Not to mention those who use guilt as a
weapon…
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Subject: Guilding, gilt or gilded?
Do you have any policies concerning the use of the terms
guilding, gilt or gilded? I would like to standardized these within our
institution, and am trying to find out what other museums are doing.
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