Through clear photographs and detailed instruction this book makes the process accessible to all levels of craftspeople, jewellers and metal clay artists. Youll learn to cut the gold foil with scissors, a craft knife, or paper punches, and how to burnish it on to the heated pmc. Keumboo hot plate jewelry discussion ganoksin orchid. This book teaches how to easily hot burnish gold foil permanently onto silver objects, and raw sheet for soldering and building patterned jewelry with. Now 64 pages 16 pages added, the book covers all aspects of keumboo, an ancient korean technique in which thin sheets of gold are fused to silver.
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