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A 5,000-year-old craft that almost no one knows about today, even though we constantly encounter objects whose appearance was significantly influenced by goldbeating.
He produces gold leaf, gold sheets—unimaginably thin. Ten thousand sheets stacked on top of each other result in a thickness of just one millimeter. These are used to gild, for example, figures, ornaments, and frames.
Herbert Vestner's workshop in Schwabach is ancient. Almost nothing has changed. As it has been for centuries, producing gold leaf still requires 30 steps. Only five of these have been automated by machines. And these machines are already over a hundred years old.
Over the centuries, the small town of Schwabach developed into the world center of this craft; one in six inhabitants was involved in it. Today, there are perhaps only ten workshops left.
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A 5,000-year-old craft that almost no one knows about today, even though we constantly encounter objects whose appearance was significantly influenced by goldbeating.
He produces gold leaf, gold sheets—unimaginably thin. Ten thousand sheets stacked on top of each other result in a thickness of just one millimeter. These are used to gild, for example, figures, ornaments, and frames.
Herbert Vestner's workshop in Schwabach is ancient. Almost nothing has changed. As it has been for centuries, producing gold leaf still requires 30 steps. Only five of these have been automated by machines. And these machines are already over a hundred years old.
Over the centuries, the small town of Schwabach developed into the world center of this craft; one in six inhabitants was involved in it. Today, there are perhaps only ten workshops left.