Gold Foil - A Perfect Fusion of Tradition and Modernity

Gold foil is a thin, cicada-like sheet of metal made from three raw materials: gold, silver, and copper, which are proportioned according to the needs, and then physically smashed and pressed. Usually the thickness of gold foil is 0.12 millimeters.

In China, gold leaf craft can be said to be one of the many exquisite handicrafts that have been handed down by the Chinese people for thousands of years. As the birthplace of gold leaf in China, the craft has been passed down in Nanjing for nearly 1,700 years, and in 2006, the "Nanjing Gold Foil Forging Technique" was entered into the National Intangible Cultural Heritage List.

The production process of gold foil

Generally, there are twelve procedures. There are twelve procedures, namely: gold proportioning, making gold bars, patting leaves, making twists, dropping gold openings, dipping gold twists, playing gold openings, loading openings, kang pits, playing fine, making tools, and cutting gold foils.

Inheritance in protection and development in innovation

The intangible cultural heritage of gold foil, only protection is not enough. For this reason, it is necessary to build a bridge between the traditional cultural industry and modern fashionable life, to protect the gold foil culture in inheritance, to develop the gold foil industry in innovation, and to turn the gold foil cultural products into fashionable, popular, and marketable, in order to boost the leaps and bounds development of the gold foil industry.

Cross-border cooperation with artists

Philosophy seeks truth, religion seeks goodness, and art seeks beauty! In the past, handmade skills, fused with technology and ideas, to form an artistic peak. However, the separation of hand and heart has turned "skill" into "craftsmanship". The "Traditional Crafts Masters Residency Program" was initiated by Scarcity Action to invite domestic and international design and art masters to residency to understand the crafts and their cultural background, and to bring new visual aesthetics to the traditional crafts with new design horizons, based on the splendid traditional crafts.

As the first artist of the Master Residency Program, Kim Buck, a Danish national jewelry designer, spent four years as a goldsmith's apprentice before studying jewelry design at the Danish Precious Metals Institute. To make gold leaf break through the limitations of material to become more lifelike, to let the lightness and dexterity of gold leaf be presented in jewelry, and to let gold leaf become a possibility for people to wear in daily life ...... is exactly what Kim hopes to achieve in this residency.