Gold Leaf

[tpstrat14]

hold your horses. he just scraped like gold shavings away? did he keep them? i mean, i know it's not much, but maybe like $5 or $10 worth of scrapings???

[GigsVT]

@tpstrat14 Gold leaf weighs almost nothing. It's only about 1000 molecules thick... millionths of an inch. Those scrapings were only worth a few cents, if that.

[choztalimksadikX]

@GigsVT its possible to get it 2 molicul thick... but really hard

[sabakabear]

I do gilding with calligraphy, and the best, least expensive supplier of gold and other metal leaf I know of is called Art Essentials in New York City. I bought 40 books of gold for about $750 four years ago.

[b1llyb0y]

This video was great!

I found it really hard to get a Gold leaf supplier so for all those that want to do gilding I use this supplier;

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[masameus]

That is fascinating. I wonder if gum arabic is/was also used for applying gold leaf on other surfaces like stucco ornamentation, picture frames, etc.

[oneslowride]

neat!