The gilder's workshop · Everything gilded
$GILDED is the coin that is gold on the outside. Brush leaf onto a brick, a banana, a duck or a toaster and see how little gold it takes to look expensive.
The gilding bench · Job card G-1
Pick an object, then drag the brush across it to lay gold leaf. The counters show how much real gold you just used and what it is worth. Spoiler: far less than it looks.
Gilder's benchTicket G-0001
Nothing gilded yet.
Drag across the object to lay leaf. Keyboard: focus the bench, then arrow keys to move and Space to lay a leaf.
Brick
Sealed 0Gold laid in total 0 mgFully gilded 0 / 4Rank Apprentice
Schedule A · How thin is thin
Four figures about gold leaf and the word “gilded”. Each one links to where it came from.
Wikipedia · Gold leaf
100nm
About how thick beaten gold leaf is. That is roughly 1/250,000 of an inch.
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250×
How much thinner the finished leaf is than the 25 micrometre rolled gold it is beaten from.
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0.175µm
The least fine gold the FTC guides allow behind the words gold plate. Gold leaf is thinner than that.
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1873
The year Twain and Warner published The Gilded Age, which gave the era its name.
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$GILDED launches paired with , a tokenized gold ETF (Gold xStock, issued by Backed). Holder rewards are paid in , not in $GILDED. is a third-party asset and not physical gold. Gilded is not affiliated with it, its issuer or the launch platform. Rewards depend on that platform and are not guaranteed. None of this is investment advice.
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Exhibits A to D · The gilder's file
Four true accounts of what gilding is, how thin it gets and why we still use the word for everything shiny and shallow. Every exhibit links to its source.
In 1873 Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner published The Gilded Age: A Tale of To-Day, a satire of greed and political corruption in post-Civil War America. The title is the point. Gilding is only a thin layer of gold over something cheaper, and the name stuck to the whole period.
A thin layer. Over everything.
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The phrase behind “gild the lily” comes from King John, probably written in the late 1590s, where the line reads closer to “To gild refined gold, to paint the lily”. “Gild the lily” is a later paraphrase. Either way the idea is the same: decorating something that needed nothing. The Oxford English Dictionary defines it as embellishing something excessively.
Gold on gold. Please stop.
Read the sourceGoldbeaters start with a rolled gold ribbon about 25 micrometres thick, a thousandth of an inch, and beat it until the finished leaf is around 100 nanometres. That is roughly 1/250,000 of an inch. The most commonly used leaf is 23 karat.
That is the whole coat.
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The top two floors of the Golden Pavilion are covered in pure gold leaf. The leaf on the 1955 reconstruction was found to have peeled off in 1984. In 1986 and 1987 it was replaced with leaf 0.5 micrometres thick and weighing 20 kilograms, which Wikipedia describes as five times the thickness and ten times the weight of the original coat.
Gold on the outside needs upkeep.
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Seal an object at the bench and its certificate is printed here, with the gold counted to the milligram and your gilded object in the frame. Put a name on it, download it or post it. It is a joke certificate and entitles you to nothing.
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Seal an object at the bench to fill in the certificate.
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