22ct Extra Thick Gold Leaf Loose Book

Loose Book of 25.

The “books” in which the gold leaf is sold are of tissue paper rouged to keep the gold from adhering to the paper. Where gold leaf is to be used for outdoor application – when without a backing it would be carried away by the slightest current of air – sheets of tissue paper somewhat larger than the gold leaf, are inserted into the pages of the already filled books. As these transfer papers are not rouged, the leaf adheres to them by pressure in a press, thus enabling the gilder to handle them with ease in the open.