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    Watch “An Assistant Preps Gold Sheets For Marino’s Hammering”

    By Craftsmanship Quarterly

    This video is a supplement to The World’s Greatest Goldbeater

    One way Marino evaluates gold leaf is to look at it against the light. Pure gold transmits green rays; highly alloyed gold with silver transmits pale violet rays.

    Produced by Craftsmanship Quarterly

    Videography by Erla Zwingle

    Edited by Paige Bierma

    The Editors of Craftsmanship Quarterly launched this online magazine in 2015, and have since developed it into a multimedia publication with more than 120,000 readers.

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