The Gold of Japan: Gild Your Own Chopsticks with Kanazawa Gold Leaf

$80 / person All materials included Reserve Your Spot PLEASE NOTE: Registration closes 4 hours before the session. Cancellations made within 72 hours of the session are nonrefundable. On Sunday, December 6th, gild your own pair of chopsticks with Kanazawa gold leaf – to keep, or to give. Love the golden glow of kintsugi? Japan’s gold tradition runs deeper. In Kanazawa, artisans have been beating gold for more than four hundred years – until it is one ten-thousandth of a millimetre thick, thin enough to lift on a breath. Almost all of Japan’s gold leaf, kinpaku, still comes from that one city. Artists know gold leaf as a material, but most people have never touched it. This class puts it in your hands. You’ll first learn where Kanazawa gold leaf comes from and how it is made, then handle the leaf yourself and pick up the artisans’ techniques for cutting it, crumpling it and laying it down.