Using Gold and Silver Leaf on Pre-enamelled Metal
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Notes and instructions from Dorothy Cockrell's Conference Workshop April 2001
Leaf is thinner and cheaper than foil. It is much more difficult to handle, but can give very subtle effects and will reticulate well.
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Make the work space as draught free as possible and breathe carefully.
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Take a sheet of tracing paper, fold it in two and then ease the leaf together with its own tissue paper into it. (The other sheets of leaf in the book can be held down with another scrap of paper.)
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Lay the folded tracing paper flat with the leaf inside and draw the desired shape on it.
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Cut or tear through all the layers of paper, then lay the whole thing carefully on the table with the side showing the tissue paper uppermost.
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Remove the top layers of paper.