How to Make 24K GOLD LEAF at Home Step by Step - See It Yourself

Highly skilled traditional crafts are embedded in Vietnam’s culture. The products in Vietnam are extremely varied and range from wood-carving, lacquer-ware and jewelry, to textiles, basket-weaving and metal-work.

Located on the northern bank of the Red River, Kieu Ky is known as the only village in Vietnam still practicing the traditional craft of producing gold leaf. The deftness of Kieu Ky artisans can be seen in pagodas and temples where statues are covered with thin gold leaf.

Hanoi is the hub of craft villages in Vietnam. Kieu Ky village is second to none in Vietnam. It produces the gold leaf that decorates statues in many temples and pagodas across Vietnam.

There are many reasons – that gold has been one of the most valuable commodities throughout history. Gold has been used for its wide capabilities in both aesthetics and practicalities.

One of the reasons gold is so valuable is that it serves as a very malleable and moldable metal – in fact, 24-karat gold (which is gold in its purest form) is actually quite soft.

Gold is malleable enough to be thinned out into a material known as gold leaf.

Gold leaf has been used throughout the centuries to decorate structures and to provide a thin gold sheen over less attractive items like wood, giving the appearance of more gold than is actually present. This process is called gilding.

How is gold leaf made?

Gold leaf is made through a process known as gold beating, which is performed exactly the way it sounds: gold is malleable enough to be beaten down and pounded down into a thin sheet that becomes gold leaf.

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