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What technology? The main technology needed to work gold leaf is a smelter to pour the initial shape, and after that you don't need any weird materials or machi
by PeterisP 3y ago
What technology? The main technology needed to work gold leaf is a smelter to pour the initial shape, and after that you don't need any weird materials or machines, it is just skilled and careful hammering. Going thinner doesn't require a different technology, it requires a more skilled goldbeater, even noways sub-µm gold leaf is routinely done with traditional methods.
- kadoban 3y agoThey wouldn't have had electroplating, but yeah you don't need that if you're okay with just spending a lot of time and care on it instead.