Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 115, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 May 1919 — Gold Leaf on Wood. [ARTICLE]

Gold Leaf on Wood.

The following '•method is given for applying gold leaf on wood: The surface must, first be carefully cleaned and prepared, and when quite dry treated with the appropriate gold size, which is laid on with a very soft hog’shair brush or camel’s-halr pencil; several coatings are applied, each being dry before the / application of the other, and finally smoothed down. To this surface the gold leaf, cut into suitable sizes, is taken up by the tip of a special brush and laid on, being pressed down by a dry camel’s-bair brush, and so on piece after piece un til the whole surface is covered. Finally, when dry, certain parts of the gilded frame are burnished with a flint or agate burnisher specially made for the purpose. The whole operation requires a certain amount of experience to obtain satisfactory results.