Bortoletti Sealing Wax Cream – Gold & Silver
Bortoletti Sealing Wax Cream is a vegan-friendly metallic finishing cream available in gold and silver. Inspired by traditional restoration techniques, it enhances raised details on wax seal impressions, adding an elegant metallic highlight ideal for invitations, stationery and decorative sealing projects.
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Bortoletti Sealing Wax Cream – Gold & Silver
The Bortoletti Sealing Wax Cream is produced using an historic formulation originally developed for restoring antique furniture. A blend of natural waxes and extremely fine metallic powders is carefully combined while warm to create a smooth cream perfectly suited to decorative finishing.
Enhance Wax Seal Impressions
This specialised cream is designed to highlight the raised areas of sealing wax impressions. When gently applied, it enhances initials, monograms and decorative motifs with a refined metallic sheen, bringing depth and contrast to every seal.
The result is a professional finish ideal for wedding stationery, handwritten correspondence, certificates and luxury packaging.
Available Metallic Finishes
- Gold – Classic warmth for traditional seals
- Silver – Elegant and contemporary highlighting
Economical & Long Lasting
Only a very small amount of cream is required for each impression, allowing a single jar to enhance hundreds of wax seals. The soft consistency ensures controlled application without obscuring fine detail.
Vegan-Friendly Formula
This sealing wax cream is vegan friendly, aligning with modern stationery choices while maintaining traditional craftsmanship standards.
How to Apply
- Create your wax seal and allow it to cool completely.
- Apply a tiny amount of cream using a fingertip or soft cloth.
- Lightly rub across the raised design.
- Buff gently to reveal the metallic effect.
Subtle yet striking, Bortoletti Sealing Wax Cream adds a luxurious finishing touch that transforms wax seal impressions into elegant decorative details.
- Manufacturer:
- Bortoletti
About Bortoletti
Bortoletti is renowned for beautifully made writing and sealing accessories inspired by Venetian artistry and traditional Italian craftsmanship. Blending decorative design with practical function, the collection brings together pens, inks, desk accessories, and wax seal tools that add refinement, personality, and pleasure to the art of correspondence.
Made for fine correspondence
Whether you are writing a letter, preparing invitations, styling place cards, or adding a finishing touch to a thoughtful gift, Bortoletti products help turn everyday writing into something more memorable. Rich materials, elegant detailing, and a distinctive heritage feel make this brand especially appealing to those who love the ritual of pen, ink, and seal.
Elegant tools and seals
Our Bortoletti range includes beautifully crafted pens, bottled inks, letter openers, desk pieces, and sealing accessories that bring charm and occasion to the written word. These are products chosen not only for their appearance, but also for the way they help create a polished and expressive result.
Chosen by Calligraphy Arts UK
At Calligraphy Arts UK, we choose Bortoletti for its combination of craftsmanship, heritage style, and creative appeal. It is a brand that suits calligraphers, stationery lovers, and thoughtful gift buyers looking for writing and sealing accessories with lasting beauty and a true sense of occasion.
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Bortoletti was founded in 1980 by four brothers driven by the passion passed on by their father for bronze casting and sculpture.
It was born in Venice, and it was here that a story of love and passion began that has been handed down from father to son in respect for tradition and the need to preserve what is wonderful about culture.
Bortoletti Fonderia Artistica design and create exclusive handmade objects in the tradition of Venetian craftsmanship, from the pencils of their designers and their artistic creativity come the designs of wonderful products and it is always a lifeblood of the whole creative process.
The passion and care they devote to their products are a source of pride and satisfaction for everyone. All creations are unique pieces, handmade and produced elusively in Bortoletti's workshop. By integrating with modern habits, they restore to you the pleasure of giving that has belonged to us all for millennia. The design of Bortoletti's products is so pleasing to the eye because it speaks of the past in the language of the present.
If you have a piece of Bortoletti - you have a part of Venice in your hands.
Hi Trina,
Thank you for asking. Bortoletti recommends using 90% pure alcohol or denatured alcohol (Methylated spirits) for a stable, odourless flame that does not burn or discolour the wax.
The two best, least expensive fuels for the alcohol lamps are denatured ethanol (ethyl alcohol; grain alcohol), and methanol (methyl alcohol; wood alcohol; methylated spirit); both can be cheaply obtained at hardware stores or home-improvement centers.
What is the alternative to denatured alcohol for alcohol lamp?
Try using >99% isopropyl alcohol. It's the closest in structure and physical properties. Denatured alcohol is mostly ethanol with methanol mixed in so it can be sold for non-food use.
Please note that Calligraphy Arts does not sell this as it requires specialist posting, but it is freely available at many hardware and cosmetic accessory stores.
I hope that helps,
Jane
Hello Irene,
Thanks for asking. To seal a lid on a jar, you need to heat the end of the sealing wax with something like a kitchen lighter and carefully drip the melted wax over the area you want to seal. Then, while the wax is still warm, you can press your stamp.
Here is a video showing one method I found on YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aA7xeigPKMQ