Description
24kt Genuine Gold Leaf supplied in booklets
24kt 80mm Genuine Transfer/Patent Gold LEAVES 25, 100, 250, and 500 sheets 80mm x 80mm 3 1/8″ x 3 1/8″ loose leaves packed in interleafing booklets. A sheet of genuine gold leaf is placed between each page of fine lightweight paper for easy handling.
Product Information
24kt Genuine Gold leaf. The gold leaf is beaten mechanically by machines through thousands of repetitions, mauling it to a thin layer of gold.
Other uses of genuine gold leaves
Gold leaf is applied in interior design (decorating walls), exterior renovation such as domes in churches, figurines, furniture restorations, signage, signboards, photo frames, scrapbooking, and other craftwork.
Genuine, not imitation gold leaf
NOTE!! 24kt Gold has 24kt of Real Gold in the metal leaf. There are other metal leaves out on the market that are called “Goldleaf” because of their appearance, but they are in fact a copper zinc alloy, and have ZERO gold in them. The industrial term for these leaves is called imitation gold leaf, or composition leaf. These leaves are used for mass production of furniture and frames. However, they will oxidize and change color over time. You can test if they are composition leaf if you spray water or put vinegar on their raw surface (i.e. prior to putting on varnish or coatings).
Larger gold leaf sheets than typical
Please also note that our leaves are industrial class gold sheets. The sizes are almost 4 times as large as other gold leaf sheets you see on the internet (usually their size is 1 3/4″ x 1 3/4″ but it is claimed to be approximately 2″ x 2″).
Jessica Smith –
I used it to gild a fore edge book that I created. It is very thin and delicate. If you touch it with your finger, it will disintegrate. It must be transferred from the paper it comes on directly to the surface to be gilded, or else it will fall apart. After a bit of expensive trial and error, my project came out very pretty and elegant looking.
robert s. –
Fast and wonderful!
Purchased 2 times 2 months apart both times outstanding! AAA+++
Steven Glucksberg –
Beautiful and easy to work with.
Athena Belisle –
Very nice
Martin W. Golden –
Great price quick shipping
DIANE A. –
This product works beautifully!
Ross Chalmers –
Following an initial mix-up when Amazon sent me the wrong product, I reached out to Barnabas Blattgold directly. They could not have been more helpful and dispatched a replacement order to me directly. The product (genuine gold leaf) is exactly as advertised and excellent quality. I will certainly source my future requirements from Barnabas Blattgold.
AiA –
They go above and beyond to make sure all customers are satisfied. Very pleasant experience!
Howard E. Glad –
Exactly as advertised…no surprises.
Dennis M. Laughlin –
Beautiful gold, easy to apply. Will purchase again for all my gold leaf needs!!
Ron K. –
embellishment on gourds
Inez Layman –
Perfect as usual! Thank you Barnabas Blattgold! And thank you Amazon.
Brad –
Great price for a great product. This stuff is the real deal. This year alone I’ve applied about 30 packs of this gold leaf, in the Missouri Governor’s Mansion and a catholic church in Kansas City. The 23.5 karat was a little cheaper and worked great for the church, but didn’t match what was at the governor’s mansion, so I had to go with the full 24K and that worked perfectly, matching the historic existing gold leaf very well.
I used the loose leaf at the church, but it’s like gossamer, so any breath will send it waving and when you try to control it you end up crumpling and tearing it, so unless you need it loose, the transfer paper is better because it’s stuck to the paper until you push it against the sizing on your wall/ceiling. The transfer is also better if you’re doing a fine design, because only the design will tear away and you can reuse other parts of the leaf on the same paper, whereas the loose stuff can tear when you pull it away and therefore be hard to reapply elsewhere.
User’s tip: In the middle picture, I painted my base designs with latex paint before applying my oil-based sizing and ultimately the gold leaf. This would normally be fine except that it all happened in a two day time period, so the latex paint hadn’t fully cured (even though it felt dry) and consequently the gold leaf stuck everywhere I pushed on it, not just on the sized spots. To fix this i used a fine point eraser-pen to “erase” the excess leaf and then go over it again with a bit of the latex base color.
Cee –
I’ve never used gold leaf before on my artwork, so i did not expect it to turn as well as it did or to be so easy to apply. Looks great; the particular color of the 24k gold is what I had wanted.
For beginners like myself, i suggest watching a couple of youtube tutorials first.
G Wilson –
Best available, both product and service.
John A. Galvin –
Product performed well, very simple to use