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  2. Gilding - Wikipedia

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    Fire-gilding or wash-gilding is a process by which an amalgam of gold is applied to metallic surfaces, the mercury being subsequently volatilized, leaving a film of gold or an amalgam containing 13 to 16% mercury. In the preparation of the amalgam, the gold must first be reduced to thin plates or grains, which are heated red-hot, and thrown ...

  3. Shell gold - Wikipedia

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    In art history and the craft of gilding, shell gold is gold paint given its colour by very small pieces of real gold, normally obtained either from waste gold from goldsmithing and gilding, ground-up gold leaf, or fragments that have come off a gold-ground painting or other gilded object. The name comes from the medieval habit of using sea ...

  4. Ormolu - Wikipedia

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    French ormolu mantel clock (around 1800) by Julien Béliard (1758 – died after 1806), Paris.The clock case by Claude Galle (1758–1815) Ormolu (/ ˈ ɔːr m ə ˌ l uː /; from French or moulu 'ground/pounded gold') is the gilding technique of applying finely ground, high-carat gold–mercury amalgam to an object of bronze, and objects finished in this way.

  5. Goldwork (embroidery) - Wikipedia

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    Chinese goldwork, including application of gold leaf, gold powder, gold thread (as embroidery or as woven textile with the exception of Nasīj) in clothing and textile, as well as the silver-work version, originated in ancient China and was used at least since the Eastern Han dynasty (25 to 220 AD) or prior, [3] with possible usage in the Shang ...

  6. 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.

  7. Society of Gilders - Wikipedia

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    The Society opened the Museum of Gilding Arts in Pontiac, Illinois in 2015. [1] Displays include the history of gold beating, its use as a decorative element and a display of works of art by the Society's members. [2] There is also a recreation of the M. Swift & Sons factory, a gold leaf manufacturing company founded in Hartford, Connecticut in ...

  8. Metal leaf - Wikipedia

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    Gilding is the process of applying a thin layer of metal on another surface. Goldbeating , the technique of producing metal leaves, has been known for more than 5,000 years. A small gold nugget 5 mm in diameter can be expanded to about 20,000 times its initial surface through hammering, producing a gold foil surface of about one half square ...

  9. Mercury silvering - Wikipedia

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    Mercury silvering or fire gilding is a silvering technique for applying a thin layer of precious metal such as silver or gold (mercury gilding) to a base metal object. The process was invented during the Middle Ages and is documented in Vannoccio Biringuccio's 1540 book De la pirotechnia . [ 1 ]