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Gold foil can mean decorative foil, edible foil, craft foil, or genuine leaf. The correct product depends on the intended use.
Gold foil is used for specialty decorative work, hot glass, craft effects, food only when edible, or sometimes as a confused search term for gold leaf.
Traditional gilded surfaces usually use gold leaf, not foil. Foil is thicker and can be useful where a heavier material is needed, such as certain hot-glass or specialty decorative applications.
If the work is food decoration, use edible gold products. If the goal is a thin, brilliant gilded surface on wood, metal, frames, signs, or architecture, compare genuine gold leaf, patent leaf, loose leaf, ribbon leaf, or imitation metal leaf instead.
Foils • Glossary • Gold Gourmet • Gold leaf • Metal leaf
Foil is not automatically gold leaf, silver leaf, real precious metal, or edible. The correct product depends on whether the use is decorative foil, edible foil, craft foil, or genuine leaf.
SeppLeaf foils are thicker, heavier materials for applications such as hot glass, bead making, and specialty decorative use. Thin traditional gilded surfaces usually use genuine gold or silver leaf.
Food decoration requires edible Gold Gourmet products. Lower-cost decorative gold effects usually use metal leaf.
 SeppLeaf Products provides an unparalleled array of genuine gold leaf, silver leaf, palladium leaf, and metal leaf; gilding tools and supplies.
SeppLeaf Products distributes Liberon premium finishes, Kolcaustico Venetian plaster, Mixol Universal Tints, and Gold Gourmet edible genuine gold and silver. SeppLeaf Products is a corporate member of the Society of Gilders.
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