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Gold leaf is available in a wide variety of carats and shades. 23-carat gold is the most commonly used variety.[citation needed]. The traditional method of manufacturing gold leaf is a process called goldbeating. In industrialized nations, the process has been replaced with more mechanized methods.

There are a variety of imitation gold leaf products available. These are used in order to avoid the high price of gold. These imitation gold, or gold-colored leafs are more accurately grouped into the broader category of metal leaf. Real yellow gold leaf is about 92% pure gold. Silver colored white gold is approximately 50% pure gold.

Layering gold leaf over a surface is sometimes called gold leafing, and is a very common form of gilding.

[edit] Gold leafing in art
Gold leaf has traditionally been most popular and most common in its use as gilding material for the decoration of art including statues like the Chryselephantine sculpture of Ancient Greece or the 10th century Golden Madonna of Essen. Illuminated manuscripts often contained much gold and silver (the latter badly subject to oxidization). In medieval panel paintings the "sky" background area, especially in religious paintings, was conventionally made of gold leaf until more realistic conventions were adopted, first in Trecento Italy, and later in Early Netherlandish painting. This style is known as "gold ground"; the gold was usually decorated with patterns made by stamps. Gold was also often used for haloes, and for highlights and patterns on clothing in paintings. Gilt bronze is a term for statues made of bronze which are then gilded; this is a very ancient process found in many cultures, sometimes using "mechanical" processes of hammering the leaf into place, but also other processes such as mercury gilding, known since ancient times.

Picture frames used to hold paintings and other works have also been gilded since medieval times and are the most frequent use of gold leaf in art in modern times. Modern "Gold" frames made without leafing are also available for a considerably smaller price, but traditionally some form of gold or metal leaf was preferred when possible and gold leafed (or silver leafed) moulding is still commonly available from many of the companies that produce commercially-available moulding for use as picture frames.

Metal leaf is also used to create a reflective mirrored backing on glass; this is known as verre églomisé work.

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