The Painstaking Process of Making Gold Leaf: Kanazawa Artisans Display Their Specialized Skills

Making gold leaf is the signature handicraft of Kanazawa. Pieces of a specially prepared gold alloy are passed through rollers that press them to a thickness of about 0.01 millimeters. The sheets of gold foil are placed between pieces of paper and stacked, and the stack is pounded to spread them and make them even thinner. The sheets are meticulously transferred to another stack of paper and pounded again. This process is repeated thousands of times, until the sheets have been thinned to 0.001 mm. Further pounding reduces the thickness to 0.0001, at which point the sheets are finally ready to be used as gold leaf. This material is so light that it is blown away by the smallest breath of air. Skilled workers handle it with a set of traditional bamboo implements. The final step is to cut it into squares of various sizes and mount it on sheets of mat board. From start to finish the process relies on the work of artisans specializing in particular tasks.
(Created in cooperation with Kanazawa Cable Television.)
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[@maybugz]

Missed the part showing how it's made

[@erahmadkamram]

question is still same. how gold leaf is made?

[@xXJMatherXx]

My patience could never.

[@miqbalhundekari4802]

Art of modern education

[@mohdtanveer4525]

I want to buy thes paper In which make gold leaves

[@logicalrat]

Gold leaf comes from gold tree obviously

[@leokimvideo]

I googled Little Golden Books (childrens book series) and this is served. More proof how cheap n rough AI makes endless mistakes

[@brianmcd9492]

Great work and skill. Could that be real gold being hammered 🙂👍

[@waseemahmed4245]

Gold silver wark

[@shehbazkhan2231]

I want to purchase 16×16 size of leaf its available in India

[@matieshbhai2599]

Super fild Pres the lord aamin

[@AshokaNH]

So cool to see all that - awesome video ! But distracting to mess with Bach lol

[@mdjaved5835]

What is this seat name

[@waseemahmed4245]

Hi

[@ErwinTheBolocBoloc]

Is this edible?

[@sophiamarialopez1459]

It is bruh

[@koffinkat666]

Yes it is put on many Rich peoples plates and Dishes especially appetizers, Then you poop it right out and your poop has Gold flake in it!

[@OscarGarcia-sx6tx]

Infused with corona virus!! Lol jk jk.. amazing work!! Crazy how much time and effort goes into this.

[@jasinZ28]

This was done in Japan. Therefore your comment was uneducated.

[@OscarGarcia-sx6tx]

@@jasinZ28 I said that because they BLOW on each of the gold leaves to spread it neatly, each time they stretch it more and more not because of anything "ELSE" UNLESS THERE'S NO COVID IN JAPAN. Not uneducated, just a simple observation that i tried to flip into a little joke. Nothing else.

[@jasinZ28]

@@OscarGarcia-sx6tx you're joke would have been knee slapping if this video was made in China!!!!

[@OscarGarcia-sx6tx]

@@jasinZ28 can you elaborate more on the last comment you posted? Really i feel like you're taking it out of proportion.. just saying.. lol

[@Player-jh9dl]

@@jasinZ28 chill dude. He was just joking. Just a small matter