ABSTRACT
Silver wire is heated, and merely passed through apertures in a steel plate, according to the fineness wanted. In gilding silver the following method is adopted. China gold leaf wrapped round the silver is put over a charcoal fire, and slowly heated. When partially fuzed it is withdrawn, and burnished with. ‘Lahsan patthar’, perhaps soapstone, after which it is drawn into wire, and sold to workers in Zardozí, or Zarí, and Karchob.11
