Types of Gold Leaf

[Danny Baronian]

OLD FORUM POSTS Types of Gold Leaf Posted by Larry White

There was a recent thread on this BB regarding the types of gold leaf available. This descriptive list came off Bruce jackson's website.

23ct The standard and most widely available gold

24ct is uncommon and usually reserved for exterior work where the absolute maximum life is required. It is more expensive than 23 ct, mainly due to manufacturing costs rather than the value of gold.

Red (23.5ct) has copper added for a beautiful warm color.

22ct is just slightly cheaper but the colour is generally like 23ct, perhaps just a little lighter if compared side by side.

Platinora Up to 23.75 carat. Gold alloyed with platinum, the color is slightly lighter than standard 23 carat

Moongold (20 - 23.75 carat) is alloyed with palladium and is a light brown/grey color similar to platinum.

18ct is a pale green/yellow combination of gold with silver and called either green or lemon gold. The gold/silver alloys were formerly known as Electrum

16ct is usually paler again and shares the names of green, lemon or pale lemon.

12ct is white gold (half gold/half silver) and is very pale. Still slightly yellow when compared with silver. It is the easier to work and preferred to the other white metals for this reason. Tarnishing isn't usually a problem but palladium can be substituted where this is an issue.

Silver is a clean cold light color, virtually a mirror when water gilded. It is thicker and harder to clean up than the gold alloys. Not used with oil gilding as it tarnishes to a brown.

Palladium is similar to silver in appearance. It is slightly darker than silver or 12ct but it doesn't tarnish.

Platinum is darker again than other white metals with a distinctly warm reddish tone. One of my favourites for its color but it's not easy to work with and is very hard to get.

Copper is a great color but very robust and almost impossible to clean up when water gilded. As a backing metal for glaze painting its color is fantastic. It comes in larger size leaves of around 140mm square as do the following common metals

Schlag (imitation or Dutch gold) is a brass with good golden color but like copper it is difficult to water gild and is not generally useful in glass work except perhaps as an oil gilded backing for large areas.

Variegated leaf comes several color types but all are based on either schlag or copper and are basically similar in their characteristics. The metal is heat treated to develop interference colors. They can be gaudy in large areas but have their uses. Very good as an interesting background when toned down with a glaze or antiquing finish

Aluminium has a cold milky blue tone and also may have manufacturing markings which mar its appearance. Best used as a non-tarnishing white metal background to a glazed treatment.

Kent Smith

My preference is Rosa Noble 23.75K which has a warm rose contrast and is alloyed for less tarnish seen in the 23K copper/silver alloy and it has a neat name. Depending upon the manufacturer, there are literally 100's of alloys, each with a different name, sometimes for the same or similar alloy. It is impossible to have a complete list as some of the combinations are not often done. Bruce's list sounds like an old August Ruhl one. Sepp and NEI have good lists too.

[Mike Jackson]

Sepp Leaf: Gold Leaf and Supplies
http://www.seppleaf.com/

NEI Group: Gold Leaf and Supplies
http://www.easyleaf.com/easyleaf.cfm?CATID=4
Huge chart of Gold Types

GBBF-1200-BOK BOOK BBF 12.00K White Gold-Soft (GBBF-1200-BOK)
GBBF-1200-PAK PACK BBF 12.00K White Gold (GBBF-1200-PAK)
GBBF-120P-BOK BOOK BBF 12.00K White Gold-Patent (GBBF-120P-BOK)
GBBF-120P-PAK PACK BBF 12.00K White Gold-Patent (GBBF-120P-PAK)
GBBF-220D-BOK BOOK BBF 22.00K Deep Gold Double (GBBF-220D-BOK)
GBBF-220D-PAK PACK BBF 22.00K Deep Gold Double (GBBF-220D-PAK)
GBBF-220G-BOK BOOK BBF 22.00K Deep Gold Glass (GBBF-220G-BOK)
GBBF-220G-PAK PACK BBF 22.00K Deep Gold Glass (GBBF-220G-PAK)
GBBF-220P-BOK BOOK BBF 22.00K Deep Gold-Patent (GBBF-220P-BOK)
GBBF-220P-PAK PACK BBF 22.00K Deep Gold-Patent (GBBF-220P-PAK)
GBBF-220T-BOK BOOK BBF 22.00K Deep Gold Triple (GBBF-220T-BOK)
GBBF-220T-PAK PACK BBF 22.00K Deep Gold Triple (GBBF-220T-PAK)
GBBF-230G-BOK BOOK BBF 23.00K Deep Gold Glass (GBBF-230G-BOK)
GBBF-230G-PAK PACK BBF 23.00K Deep Gold Glass (GBBF-230G-PAK)
GBBF-230P-BOK BOOK BBF 23.00K Deep Gold-Patent (GBBF-230P-BOK)
GBBF-230P-PAK PACK BBF 23.00K Deep Gold-Patent (GBBF-230P-PAK)
GBBF-SILP-BOK BOOK BBF Silver-Patent (GBBF-SILP-BOK)
GBBF-SILP-PAK PACK BBF Genuine Silver-Patent (GBBF-SILP-PAK)
GBBF-SILV-BOK BOOK BBF Genuine Silver (GBBF-SILV-BOK)
GBBF-SILV-PAK PACK BBF Genuine Silver (GBBF-SILV-PAK)
GEYT-1200-BOK BOOK EYT 12.00K White Gold (GEYT-1200-BOK)
GEYT-1200-PAK PACK EYT 12.00K White Gold (GEYT-1200-PAK)
GEYT-1530-BOK BOOK EYT 15.30K Green Gold (GEYT-1530-BOK)
GEYT-1530-PAK PACK EYT 15.30K Green Gold (GEYT-1530-PAK)
GEYT-1800-BOK BOOK EYT 18.00K Lemon Gold (GEYT-1800-BOK)
GEYT-1800-PAK PACK EYT 18.00K Lemon Gold (GEYT-1800-PAK)
GEYT-2000-BOK BOOK EYT 20.00K Lemon Gold (GEYT-2000-BOK)
GEYT-2000-PAK PACK EYT 20.00K Lemon Gold (GEYT-2000-PAK)
GEYT-2100-BOK BOOK EYT 21.00K Yellow Gold (GEYT-2100-BOK)
GEYT-2100-PAK PACK EYT 21.00K Yellow Gold (GEYT-2100-PAK)
GEYT-2200-BOK BOOK EYT 22.00K Deep Gold (GEYT-2200-BOK)
GEYT-2200-PAK PACK EYT 22.00K Deep Gold (GEYT-2200-PAK)
GEYT-220P-BOK BOOK EYT 22.00K Deep Gold-Patent (GEYT-220P-BOK)
GEYT-220P-PAK PACK EYT 22.00K Deep Gold-Patent (GEYT-220P-PAK)
GEYT-2300-BOK BOOK EYT 23.00K Ducate Double (GEYT-2300-BOK)
GEYT-2300-PAK PACK EYT 23.00K Ducate Double (GEYT-2300-PAK)
GEYT-230P-BOK BOOK EYT 23.00K Ducate Double-Patent (GEYT-230P-BOK)
GEYT-230P-PAK PACK EYT 23.00K Ducate Double-Patent (GEYT-230P-PAK)
GEYT-SILV-BOK BOOK EYT Genuine Silver (GEYT-SILV-BOK)
GFRM-1200-BOK BOOK FRM 12.00K White Gold (GFRM-1200-BOK)
GFRM-1200-PAK PACK FRM 12.00K White Gold (GFRM-1200-PAK)
GFRM-120P-BOK BOOK FRM 12.00K White Gold-Patent (GFRM-120P-BOK)
GFRM-120P-PAK PACK FRM 12.00K White Gold-Patent (GFRM-120P-PAK)
GFRM-120S-BOK BOOK FRM 12.00K White Gold-Special (GFRM-120S-BOK)
GFRM-120S-PAK PACK FRM 12.00K White Gold-Special (GFRM-120S-PAK)
GFRM-1600-BOK BOOK FRM 16.00K Gold (GFRM-1600-BOK)
GFRM-1600-PAK PACK FRM 16.00K Gold (GFRM-1600-PAK)
GFRM-1800-BOK BOOK FRM 18K Lemon Gold (GFRM-1800-BOK)
GFRM-1800-PAK PACK FRM 18K Lemon Gold (GFRM-1800-PAK)
GFRM-2200-BOK BOOK FRM 22.00K Deep Gold (GFRM-2200-BOK)
GFRM-2200-PAK PACK FRM 22.00K Deep Gold (GFRM-2200-PAK)
GFRM-220M-BOK BOOK FRM 22.00K Moongold (GFRM-220M-BOK)
GFRM-220M-PAK PACK FRM 22.00K Moongold (GFRM-220M-PAK)
GFRM-220P-BOK BOOK FRM 22.00K Deep Gold Patent (GFRM-220P-BOK)
GFRM-220P-PAK PACK FRM 22.00K Deep Gold Patent (GFRM-220P-PAK)
GFRM-220R-BOK BOOK FRM 22.00K Deep Gold Red (GFRM-220R-BOK)
GFRM-220R-PAK PACK FRM 22.00K Deep Gold Red (GFRM-220R-PAK)
GFRM-2375-BOK BOOK FRM 23.75K Deep Gold (GFRM-2375-BOK)
GFRM-2375-PAK PACK FRM 23.75K Deep Gold (GFRM-2375-PAK)
GFRM-237P-BOK BOOK FRM 23.75K Deep Gold-Patent (GFRM-237P-BOK)
GFRM-237P-PAK PACK FRM 23.75K Deep Gold-Patent (GFRM-237P-PAK)
GFRM-2400-BOK BOOK FRM 24K Deep Gold (GFRM-2400-BOK)
GFRM-2400-PAK PACK FRM 24K Deep Gold (GFRM-2400-PAK)
GFRM-R001-012 ROLL FRM Genuine Gold Leaf 12.00K-1" (GFRM-R001-012)
GFRM-R001-022 ROLL FRM Genuine Gold Leaf 22.00K-1" (GFRM-R001-022)
GFRM-R001-023 ROLL FRM Genuine Gold Leaf 23.00K-1" (GFRM-R001-023)
GFRM-R001-SIL ROLL FRM Genuine Silver Leaf-1" (GFRM-R001-SIL)
GFRM-R002-012 ROLL FRM Genuine Gold Leaf 12.00K-2" (GFRM-R002-012)
GFRM-R002-022 ROLL FRM Genuine Gold Leaf 22.00K-2" (GFRM-R002-022)
GFRM-R002-023 ROLL FRM Genuine Gold Leaf 23.00K-2" (GFRM-R002-023)
GFRM-R002-SIL ROLL FRM Genuine Silver Leaf-2" (GFRM-R002-SIL)
GFRM-R003-012 ROLL FRM Genuine Gold Leaf 12.00K-3" (GFRM-R003-012)
GFRM-R003-022 ROLL FRM Genuine Gold Leaf 22.00K-3" (GFRM-R003-022)
GFRM-R003-023 ROLL FRM Genuine Gold Leaf 23.00K-3" (GFRM-R003-023)
GFRM-R003-SIL ROLL FRM Genuine Silver Leaf-3" (GFRM-R003-SIL)
GFRM-R004-012 Genuine Gold Roll 12 Karat - 4" (GFRM-R004-012)
GFRM-R004-022 ROLL FRM Genuine Gold Leaf 22.00K-4" (GFRM-R004-022)
GFRM-R004-023 ROLL FRM Genuine Gold Leaf 23.00K-4" (GFRM-R004-023)
GFRM-R004-SIL ROLL FRM Genuine Silver Leaf-4" (GFRM-R004-SIL)
GFRM-R012-012 ROLL FRM Genuine Gold Leaf 12.00K-1/2" (GFRM-R012-012)
GFRM-R012-022 ROLL FRM Genuine Gold Leaf 22.00K-1/2" (GFRM-R012-022)
GFRM-R012-023 ROLL FRM Genuine Gold Leaf 23.00K-1/2" (GFRM-R012-023)
GFRM-R012-SIL ROLL FRM Genuine Silver Leaf-1/2" (GFRM-R012-SIL)
GFRM-R014-022 ROLL FRM Genuine Gold Leaf 22.00K-1/4" (GFRM-R014-022)
GFRM-R014-023 ROLL FRM Genuine Gold Leaf 23.00K-1/4" (GFRM-R014-023)
GFRM-R014-SIL ROLL FRM Genuine Silver Leaf-1/4" (GFRM-R014-SIL)
GFRM-R018-012 ROLL FRM Genuine Gold Leaf 12.00K-1/8" (GFRM-R018-012)
GFRM-R018-022 ROLL FRM Genuine Gold Leaf 22.00K-1/8" (GFRM-R018-022)
GFRM-R018-023 ROLL FRM Genuine Gold Leaf 23.00K-1/8" (GFRM-R018-023)
GFRM-R018-SIL ROLL FRM Genuine Silver Leaf-1/8" (GFRM-R018-SIL)
GFRM-R034-012 ROLL FRM Genuine Gold Leaf 12.00K-3/4" (GFRM-R034-012)
GFRM-R034-022 ROLL FRM Genuine Gold Leaf 22.00K-3/4" (GFRM-R034-022)
GFRM-R034-023 ROLL FRM Genuine Gold Leaf 23.00K-3/4" (GFRM-R034-023)
GFRM-R034-SIL ROLL FRM Genuine Silver Leaf-3/4" (GFRM-R034-SIL)
GFRM-R038-012 ROLL FRM Genuine Gold Leaf 12.00K-3/8" (GFRM-R038-012)
GFRM-R038-022 ROLL FRM Genuine Gold Leaf 22.00K-3/8" (GFRM-R038-022)
GFRM-R038-023 ROLL FRM Genuine Gold Leaf 23.00K-3/8" (GFRM-R038-023)
GFRM-R038-SIL ROLL FRM Genuine Silver Leaf-3/8" (GFRM-R038-SIL)
GFRM-R058-012 ROLL FRM Genuine Gold Leaf 12.00K-5/8" (GFRM-R058-012)
GFRM-R058-022 ROLL FRM Genuine Gold Leaf 22.00K-5/8" (GFRM-R058-022)
and more....