ICON PANEL MAKERS
United Kingdom:
- Handskill stock a wide range of sizes and also make to order. Flat birch plywood panels are also available. For more information, current prices, and to purchase, email chris.handskill@gmail.com
Handskill make high quality icon panels using tulipwood, with oak for the braces which are dovetailed and tapered in the traditional way to prevent warping. The panels are hollowed to 3mm, or to whatever depth is requested. They can be bought gessoed or ungessoed. Handskill stock a wide range of sizes and also make to order.
Europe:
- Icone & Legno. www.iconelegno.it An Italian supplier of ready-made and bespoke panels, which come gessoed and sanded. Via Trevisit, 46, Cordenons, Italy. Phone: +39 (0)434 930418, Email: renato.icone@gmail.com
America:
- Icon Boards. www.iconboards.com Supplies ready-made panels in a wide range of sizes, as well as bespoke panels. Stanislav Solovyev, 206 Jamaica Blvd, Endicot, NY-13760, U.S.A. Phone/Fax (607)754677.
- Religious Supply. www.religious-supply.com This company imports boards made in Pskov monastery in Russia. Address:18 Hunter Lane, Ithaca NY 14850, U.S.A. Phone: 607 539-7940, Email: info@religious-supply.com
ICON MATERIALS SUPPLIERS
United Kingdom:
- L. Cornelissen and Son Ltd., 105 Great Russell Street, London, WC1B 3RY. Phone 0207 6361045. www.cornelissen.com
- AP Fitzpatrick, 142 Cambridge Heath Road, Bethnal Green, London E1 5QJ. Phone 0207 7900884. www.apfitzpatrick.co.uk
- Stuart R. Stevenson, 68 Clerkenwell Road, London, EC1M 5QA. Phone 0207 2531693. www.stuartstevenson.co.uk
- Wright’s of Lymm, Warrington Lane, Lymm, Cheshire, WA13 OSA. Phone 01925 752226. www.stonehouses.co.uk For gold leaf and gilding tools.
- Rosemary and Co. Makers of fine artists’ brushes. PO Box 372, Keighley, West Yorkshire, BD20 6WZ, U.K. Phone 01535 600090 www.rosemaryandco.com
- The Gilder’s Warehouse Ltd., 5 Woodside Commercial estate, Thornwood, Epping, Essex, CM16 6LJ. Phone 01992 570453.
America:
- Natural Pigments. www.naturalpigments.com Call Toll Free within USA: 1-888-361-5900
- Pandora. www.pandora-store.com Stanislav Solovyev, 206 Jamaica Blvd. Endicott, NY-13760, US Phone/Fax (607)7546774 or (607)757-2577
OTHER PIGMENT PRODUCERS
- Attila Gazo of Master Pigments www.masterpigments.com, produces azurite, malachite, orpiment, realgar, volkonskoite, cinnabar and more recently, lapis lazuli both in a simple ground powder form, but also the superior extraction process.