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by JennieC
Tue Nov 07, 2006 7:04 pm
Forum: The Hand Lettering Forum
Topic: Gilding/Leafing as a component in calligraphy- questions.
Replies: 10
Views: 6039

Santa Maria! :o I took out one of the little leaves of gold from the package just to look at it and it almost completely disintegrated in my hands!! :( I thought it would be like tin foil, but this stuff makes tissue paper look like steel! How do you guys handle this stuff? Do you need special tweez...
by JennieC
Sat Nov 04, 2006 6:14 pm
Forum: The Hand Lettering Forum
Topic: Gilding/Leafing as a component in calligraphy- questions.
Replies: 10
Views: 6039

Thank you all so very much for your advice and kind words! I did indeed find a calligraphy society in our area. Hopefully, they will accept him into the club. Anyway, as soon as he is released, I will post pictures of his work. He spends an unreal amount of time on each piece... There is no way I wo...