Did you know that real gold doesn't tarnish and that it reflects the light? And so an illuminated manuscript technically speaking, is a manuscript hand written manuscript thing, that has real gold on it. So this is my jar of real gold. And actually this is just little scraps of gold. Gold comes from my purposes anyway, it comes in gold leaf, and it's like about one thousandth of an inch thick. So, this looks like a lot of gold, but it really isn't. But it still is very beautiful. So I'm going to show you how to put gold on something. So I've made this preparation and there's little place here where I've put the sticky stuff that you're that's going to make the gold stick. So the sticky stuff you can buy, there's different brands that you can buy of it. Or you can even make your own if you're really smart enough to do it, but I usually buy the stuff that comes in the brand. Now this is a little book, this is a little book that you buy that has gold leaf in it. And here's a piece, oops, here's gold leaf. You have to be really careful with it. But, I'm going to get a little static electricity going on this brush by rubbing it in my hair. And now it's going to pick up, right, so I pick it up, and then I just kind of brush it over this sticky place, and the gold sticks. And I got to brush it here. Try not to waste any. Take a little bit more. Yes, this is expensive. And this is just a card, which I've done for this demonstration, but if you're giving something to someone and you know they're gong to appreciate it, I think it's OK to use real gold. I'm not particularly fond of putting gold on things that are what we call a femoral, which means that they're, you know, there's something that might get thrown away. I'm not feeling too good about that. Alright, but then the rest of this gold that when there's also another kind of, another way that you can have gold, which would be on a sheet of paper that's stuck to a sheet of paper, in which case you would turn it over and then with something called a burnisher, which I can't quite find right now, here it is. OK. Something called a burnisher. Let's say there was a little space in here that didn't take the gold. So then I could actually press it on like this.
More Photos
