Art supply stores carry the kind of gold leaf sheets you need for gilding, which has been taking off as a trendy DIY craft. TikToker @bland_design posted a video to the social media platform ...

One of my favorite things in the whole wide world is gold leaf and gilding stuff ... This is really thin sheets of brass, copper, or a similar metal. Real gold would be waaaayyyy too expensive ...

The monk's body was then sterilized and painted. The final step — gilding with gold leaf — started on March 16, according to The People's Daily. Li Ren said the golden statue "is now being ...

All of these examples use beaten gold, thin sheets of the precious metal, also called gold leaf. And much of it comes from the workshop of Marino Menegazzo, widely acknowledged as the last ...