
Create one-of-a-kind jewelry with this 23.5-karat yellow gold foil. It is thicker and studier than gold leaf; its ideal for keum-boo, the centuries-old Korean art of gilding using heat and a burnisher to fuse very thin gold sheet to metal designs.
Each sheet is 23.5-karat (98% pure gold, 1.5% silver and 0.5% copper). This sheet is sold by the karat weight and not the shipping weight.
• The weight shown for this item is shipping weight, not the weight of the gold content of this sheet.
• The small amount of copper in this foil poses no problems for enameling processes.
• The dimensions of this sheet will vary, sheets are approximately 3" (76.2mm) to 3-1/2" (88.9mm) square. Sheet thickness also will vary and is extremely difficult to measure precisely, sheets are approximately .000142" (.004mm) thick.
• IMPORTANT: As a supplier to the jewelry trade, Rio Grande strongly discourages any medical use of our fabrication metals. Your safety is important to us; therefore, we do not accept orders of fine gold for any purpose that includes ingesting, injecting, implanting or applying it topically. Do not use Rio Grande fine gold for colloidal purposes.