Making Gold Lace
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A short magazine piece describing how gold wire for gold lace is made. A silver rod is coated with gold leaf, burnished, and drawn through steel plates into very fine wire, with the gold keeping the same ratio to the silver throughout. The article estimates the gold layer on the finest wire at about one-third of one-millionth of an inch thick.
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From Ralph Griswold's Digital Archive, delivered by the University of Arizona.
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