How to Make Old Gold
Briefly, the process is as follows;
1. Tools:
1. table 2. blower 3. anvil of various sizes 4. hammer 5. pliers, tweezers or tools for seizing or picking up 6. needle file 7. mushroom-shaped punch 8. rainbow- shaped iron rod 9. moulding pit in various shapes to mould gold into round shape or bead shape. These are in the form of moulds with various sizes.
2. Metods
2.1 Melting. The goldsmith puts pure gold into the smelting oit and blow it at high temperature until gold turns into liquid. Gold is then poured into a rectangular trough to cool down and become solid mass.
2.2 Beating or flattening. Gold sheet or gold wire is made. To make a sheet, a gold bar is placed on an anvil and hit hard with a hammer. To make gold wires, gold bar is flattened into a pointed pencil-like tube and passed through a spinner with small hole which will turn it into long wires.
3. Old gold making techniques. Sukhothai old gold is made by many methods:
3.1 Gold plaits. Gold wires are made into plaits of various designs and sizes as required. Designs are named as the three-thread, four-thread, five-thread, etc.
32 Gold rosary beads. Gold sheet is put in two halves of a round mould and then join together. Holes are punched in the middle for a string or chain to go through. The size of the mould makes for the size of the beads.
3.3 Square or rectangular beads. Gold sheet is spread and rolled around in the shape of boxes. Holes are pierced in the middle for stringing.
3.4 Round or oval beads. For making fruits and seeds shapes such as mayom or rambutan or pine come, similar methods are applied. The difference lies in the wire cutting and the numbers of motifs to be made.
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