Preserve the character-defining features of your building or enhance its style with unique expertly crafted decorative metal elements like stamped metal roofing and stamped metal shingles.
At Heather & Little, we recreate, restore, or devise custom metal stamped, pressed and fabricated decorative elements with artistry and old-school craftsmanship, utilizing both vintage equipment and state-of-the-art technology. We’re proud to be one of North America’s leading stamped sheet metal fabricators and custom metal stamping services, with a proprietary method of stamping that lends itself to unique individual projects, as opposed to most manufacturers, whose tooling is geared only toward large commercial output. Our skilled artisans can create long or short runs of your chosen stamped sheet metal design, using the metal that is best suited to your needs, including copper, bronze, zinc, lead coated copper, stainless steel, aluminum and more. We’ve worked on a variety of stamped elements for custom metal stamping services, including consoles, balustrades, finals, leaderheads, crimped (corrugated) copper or other crimped metals as well as historic cast iron and/or galvanized iron architectural facade trimmings, including the popular Mesker’s versions.
Interested in ordering from one of our custom sheet metal stamped or fabricated dies? Browse through samples available in the catalog below or contact Heather & Little to ask us about your own pressed sheet metal project and stamped metal roofing.
During its heyday –1870s through the 1930s, sheet metal was used in North America for a variety of decorative three-dimensional exterior components. While pundits of the day criticized metal decorative elements like stamped metal roofing as being merely imitative of expensive or difficult to produce materials, the court of public opinion was firmly on the side of decorative metal—it was durable, beautiful, and made possessing a building of style within the grasp of a larger population. Today we have inherited the legacy of this period of ornamentation. The skilled pressed sheet metal craftsmen at Heather & Little have a wealth of restoration and reproduction experience required to preserve these details in stamped metal roofing and other stamped metal, whether they are on18th century churches, heritage schools or government buildings, for future generations.
Heather & Little completed decorative finishing elements for Montreal City Hall’s copper mansard roof as well as the bell tower with 20-, 24- and 32-ounce sheet copper. Our team reproduced roof finials, copper urns, and copper balustrades. Each of these pieces was carefully replicated using the original copper elements from the building.
Heather& Little were brought in to repair the 1980s embellishments that were added to the Theatre exterior to recreate the style of its original 1920s appearance. The repairs needed to marry seamlessly with 1980s elements that were still in good condition.
And if you are looking for a second opinion on your project or have a particularly complex issue that needs a fresh eye, we’re here for that too. Tackling tricky challenges is our specialty and we welcome the opportunity to provide consulting advice, with the same exacting attention to detail we bring to all our commissions.
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