GOSSAMER GOLD
WORK OF LONDON CRAFTSMEN. In London today there are master craftsmen making gold-leaf one 290,000th of an inch in thickness. Using an 81b. hammer on a marble bench, they beat out leaf as frail as gossamer, and it is their boast that theirs is the oldest craft in the British Empire, for- they can point to gold-leaf on a mummy case in the British Museum dating back to 2600 B.C. Seven years ago, the world’s biggest makers of gold-leaf began research work at their London headquarters to produce leaf which would lie more evenly. Today the new material is keeping its British makers busy. They are now sending it out to many quarters of the globe. The ancient methods are still employed for the gold leaf used by sign and interior decorators in their gilding of wood work and for furniture. So, under one factory roof in London today, modern craftsmen are using, side by side, methods little changed in thousands of years with others but a few years old.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 August 1941, Page 7
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