Baby Shoe Bronzing
Baby shoe bronzing is a time honored tradition. For years, parents have sent their baby’s shoes off for bronzing as a permanent keepsake of their child’s early days. When you bronze baby shoes, it captures the essence and physically illustrates that brief period of time when your infant was small and new. Sentiment plays a huge part in bronzing baby shoes.
Bronze baby shoes can be display in a variety of forms. Some parents display baby bronze shoes on a plaque with a poem or phrase that has special meaning to them. Others with transform a bronze baby shoe into something functional that also displays well. Bookends are popular for baby shoe bronzing.
The history of bronzing baby shoes can be traced back to the 1930’s. However, it wasn’t until the 1960’s that this baby shoe bronzing trend really took off. Back then, you just got the bronze baby shoes back to display how you wish. Now though, you can select from any number of creative displays such as the plaques and bookends listed above.
Some parents have their own bronze baby shoe collections, especially if they have several children. Plus, you may want to indulge in some baby shoe bronzing with not only their first pair of shoes, but maybe their first pair of boots or even sandals.
Some people who wish to start their own business have looked into baby shoe bronzing manufacturing. With baby shoes bronzing manufacturing, if it is an individual who wishes to do it as a side business, chances are that the processes they use are not true bronzing. True bronzing starts with electroplating first before the bronzing layer is applied.
However, you can find kits that tell you how to bronze baby shoes. Keep in mind though that this does not involve an electroplating. Rather, you are really just brushing multiple layers of a substance that stiffens the shoes and gives them the appearance of the bronzed look. Whether you look to capital district baby shoe bronzing or a do-it-yourself scenario, you have to decide which process you want to trust your precious baby’s shoes to.
If you want to immortalize your baby’s shoes but don’t want to indulge in baby shoe bronzing, you can find a place that does both bronze and porcelain baby shoes. Porcelain is another great way to preserve your memories of your baby’s first steps. The only rule of thumb to worry about is that soft baby shoes like those made of satin, lace or cloth will not bronze properly because they will not hold their shape. However, stiffer shoes will work for baby shoe bronzing.
