Gold leaf-box "Irodori and Kirameki

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Description It is a box that seems to be able to be used as a pen case. You can produce your item in Japanese style!! Height 3cm Width 20.6cm Length 6.5cm Material ligneous,silver foil,gold foil,urethane What is Gold leaf craft in Japan? The leaf is very thin and in the case of gold leaf is between 0.0001 mm and 0.0002 mm thick. For this reason, it is possible to apply the leaf to materials however complicated the pattern might be. What is more, none of the brilliance of the raw gold is lost at all, and the beauty and splendor of the finished products never cease to captivate the heart of the beholder. It still has a wide range of?craft applications in the fields of textiles, lacquer ware, ceramics and on various types of screens, often applied to paper. It is also?used on signs and individual carved characters as well as on the mizuhiki decorations for gifts and on the best art mountings. Large?amounts of gold leaf in particular are used on household Buddhist altars and on shrine and temple buildings, too. The industry is?sustained by 200 firms employing 1,000 staff, among whom they are 26 Master Craftsmen. t is still within the noble tenor of the designs a special aesthetic quality that has been nurtured over the thousand years of the history of Kyoto. About SHIPPING: How to ship? We only use EMS in shipping, no other options. read more

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