Solution to last week's quiz: hammering gold leaf.
King Galon Gold Leaf Workshop Show Room & Sale Centre:
Display of the various stages of making gold leaf:
Gold leaf of various sizes for sale, but prices seemed inflated to me compared to gold leaf in Thailand in temples, so I passed.
Cutting and packing:
But production is only for show. Hammering only when a visitor is watching.
The coconut shell in water is to count time (until the empty coconut shell is filled by water coming in through a small hole).
There is a gold leaf museum in Japan: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanazawa_Yasue_Gold_Leaf_Museum
and gold leaf is still produced by hammering, although by machines in Europe: https://noris-blattgold.de/gold-leaf-production?lang=en
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