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China Repair for Grandmother’s China Platter
Luel Restoration Studio – Home If your grandmother is throwing out a chipped piece of china stored for years in her china hutch, ask her, beg her, to let you take the piece. With proper china restoration from an experienced and talented restoration artist, the platter can be a beautiful piece for displaying on a [...]
Story of Blue Willow China
Centuries ago, when China was ruled by Emperors, a Chinese man lived in a beautiful pagoda under an apple tree to the right side of the bridge. It is over this bridge that the willow tree drapes. The Chinese man, Tso Ling, was the father of a beautiful daughter, Kwang-se. It is this daughter who [...]
Ceramic and Porcelain Restoration Classes
Luel Restoration Studio – Home Greetings, A lot of our clients ask us about the ceramic and porcelain restoration classes that Luba conducts a few times a year, depending on Luba’s availability and on how many people sign up. A man from Chicago called yesterday and wanted to buy a How-To-Restore Ceramic and Porcelain Items [...]
China Restoration
Luel Restoration Studio — Home China, originally referred to a ceramic dinnerware coming out of the country of China, was particularly fine and exceptionally white. China is a ceramic product but of a very fine quality and it should more accurately be called porcelain. The Chinese perfected porcelain by using kaolin, a white clay, mixing [...]
Meissen Porcelain Repair Done with Care and Artistry
Luel Restoration Studio — Home Meissen Porcelain is created by Germany’s premier manufacturer of fine porcelain tableware, giftware and hand-painted porcelain. They have been in continuous operation since 1710 in the town of Meissen, fifteen miles northwest of Dresden, Germany. Today, they produce more than 175,000 items from about 200,000 different forms – some forms [...]
Ceramic Restoration or Conservation?
Luel Restoration Studio — Home In general, conservation is usually the work antiquities of museums and archaeological digs. Conservators do work on repairs, but they primarily focus on documentation, research, and repair methodology that does not obviously alter the item’s appearance. Ceramic restoration can employ all of the above, but the emphasis is on making [...]
Porcelain Repair – Do Not Glue It Yourself!
Luel Restoration Studio — Home Your porcelain plate or antique breaks into several pieces … what to do?! Do not glue it yourself! Some of the most irreparable harm for a ceramic or porcelain repair is done by the owner. You should be aware that some glues are impossible to remove. This make repair by [...]
Chinese Antique Porcelain Fiction
Luel Restoration Studio — Home A subject close to our hearts is of course, porcelain, and “A Cup of Light,” is a great novel written around the topic of the intricacies of Chinese porcelain and the world of imitators and smugglers. It’s not a new book, published in 2003, but you may know the author, [...]
Why Try Hummel Figurine Repair?
Luel Restoration Studio — Home Putting aside the very real sentimental value of a special family Hummel figurine, we will focus here on the monetary value of a Hummel piece. Of course, if you’re not sure what you have, you will need to determine if your Hummel figurine is authentic. The best is to take [...]
Hummel Figurine History
Franz Goebel began making his porcelain in Germany in 1876. After being establishing the company in the porcelain industry, Goebel’s son expanded the products they offered, expanded their markets to include America, and changed the company name to W. Goebel Porzellanfabrik. Fast forward to the 1930s with the world in growing turmoil, and the founding [...]
