Job Description:

• 1) Covers surfaces of items, such as books, furniture, harps, and signs, with metal leaf, such as aluminum, gold, or silver, to decorate them, using brushes, T-shaped handtool, and hands: Brushes sizing on sections of items which are to be covered with leaf, according to design.

• 2) Transfers leaf from supply book onto pallet.

• 3) Rubs camel-hair brush in hair to electrify brush and picks up leaf with brush, or picks up leaf with T-shaped, felt-edged tool, and lays leaf over sizing; or presses sheets or ribbons of leaf onto sizing by hand.

• 4) Smooths leaf over surface and removes excess, using brush.

• 5) Rubs leaf with polished burnishing agate, cotton pad, or gloved hand to polish leaf or simulate worn metal finish.

• 6) May brush or spray protective lacquer coat over gilded surface.