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2. Akan art - Wikipedia

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   The Akan people create neck-wear, wrist bands, elbow-wear, knee-wear, and ankle-wear. Gender-specific jewelry includes hat pins and headbands for men and earrings and hairpins for the women. Historically, wearing gold was an honor reserved for the rulers and social elite, but nowadays anyone with the means to acquire them may wear gold ...

3. Gold leaf - Wikipedia

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   A gold nugget of 5 mm (0.2 in) in diameter (bottom) can be expanded through hammering into a gold foil of about 0.5 m 2 (5.4 sq ft). The Toi gold mine museum, Japan.. Gold leaf is gold that has been hammered into thin sheets (usually around 0.1 μm thick [1]) by a process known as goldbeating, [2] for use in gilding.

4. Queen Puabi's headdress - Wikipedia

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   Queen Puabi's headdress is a 2600–2450 BCE Mesopotamian crown consisting of ornate gold leaf wreaths, strands of lapis lazuli and carnelian beads, with a gold comb, and delicate hair ribbons. [1] The entirety of the headdress is estimated to weigh over 6 pounds. [2]

5. Jewellery - Wikipedia

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   Jewellery (or jewelry in American English) ... Unlike the Romans, the Franks, and the Celts, however, Byzantium used light-weight gold leaf rather than solid gold ...

6. Medieval jewelry - Wikipedia

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   Gold sheets could be hammered to a higher level of fineness; gold foil was approximately the thickness of a piece of paper and gold leaf could be as thin as 0.005 millimeters. [29] The process of plating involved gold foil being hammered or smoothed over a core of glass or another metal. [ 31 ]

7. Gilding - Wikipedia

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   Gilded frame ready for burnishing with an agate stone tool Application of gold leaf to a reproduction of a 15th-century panel painting. Gilding is a decorative technique for applying a very thin coating of gold over solid surfaces such as metal (most common), wood, porcelain, or stone. [1] A gilded object is also described as "gilt".