enow.com Web Search

  1. Ads

    related to: gold paper used for gilding

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Gilding - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilding

    Artist holding a gilder's tip in his right hand and using it to lift a piece of gold leaf from a sheet of paper. A gilder's tip is a type of gilding brush used for transferring sheets of metal leaf to either a surface that has been prepared to accept the leaf or to a gilder's block where the leaf is then cut with a gilder's knife into smaller ...

  3. Gold leaf - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold_leaf

    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. Mosaic gold - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosaic_gold

    This work uses bronze powder, along with other media on paper. Mosaic gold or bronze powder refers to tin(IV) sulfide [1] as used as a pigment in bronzing and gilding wood and metal work. It is obtained as a yellow scaly crystalline powder. The alchemists referred to it as aurum musivum, or aurum mosaicum. [2]

  5. Metal leaf - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metal_leaf

    Metal leaf processing. A metal leaf, also called composition leaf or schlagmetal, is a thin foil used for gilding and other forms of decoration. [1] Metal leaves can come in many different shades, due to the composition of the metal within the metal leaf.

  6. Gold ground - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold_ground

    Gold leaf squares were used on paper, with their edges sometimes left visible. [34] These rooms had rather small windows, and the gold reflected light into the room; ceilings might be decorated the same way. [35] The full background might be in gold leaf, or sometimes just the clouds in the sky. [36] The Rinpa school made extensive use of gold ...

  7. Ormolu - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ormolu

    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. The mercury is driven off in a kiln, leaving behind a gold coating.

  1. Ads

    related to: gold paper used for gilding