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A artist at work in Asia restoring some of the gold leaf on a Buddhist temple. Thai Temples have very architectural design and style in all Thailand areas.

You may wonder if all that gold foil you see on statues and in temples in Bangkok is real. Yes, this is real gold ranging in purity from 96.5 to 99.99 percent pure. It is an extremely time consuming process to create gold foil that thin from the original gold bars. Once the gold reaches the stage where it is thin enough to be shipped to the Wats bamboo scissors are used to cut it into small square pieces. Regular scissors are not used because the gold foil sticks to the metal of the blades.



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