YOUR TOUCH CAN BE AS GOLDEN AS MIDAS' AFTER LESSON IN GILDING.(Lifestyle)

Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA) | November 9, 1996 | Copyright

The art of gilding - coating an object with a thin layer of gold - is centuries old and remains popular today. It's easy to see why. Gold leaf transforms a plain object into a brilliant, lustrous work of art, and it lasts for years and years.

All the supplies you need for gilding are available at good art-supply and craft stores. In addition to gold leaf, look for silver and copper leaf and alloys, also called composition metals.

Here are some gilding guidelines:

The basics: Gold leaf is extremely thin - a stack of as many as 250,000 sheets is just ...

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