Mona Lisa Metal Leaf Adhesive Made in USA - 2 oz Size for Gold Silver Copper Gilding - Water Based Craft Glue

Been using this on a few silver leafing projects lately. It’s adhesive is strong, easy to open bottle, priced well, and cures quickly!

Good quality glue for gold leaf. I’ve tried many and this is the best

This worked great. I never needed to wait 30 minutes for it to turn clear. I suggest practicing on something less important first. I watched many YouTube videos and people used tweezers , thus tearing the foil up to the put on large spaces. Drop the tweezers. Put the Mona Lisa Sizing on your item and set aside. If your foil is inside paper holders , lay out the amount you think you’ll need with the flimsier side of paper facing upwards. Now carefully fold the protective paper back half way and crease to keep open. Do this for several or all of your planned foil pieces. When the sizing turns clear, carefully pick up a foil ‘holder and have the side that’s half exposed facing outwards. Apply that edge to your item to be gilded. Then you can tilt item and move hand releasing the rest of the foil. Use smooth paper to slide over foil to smooth. You may want more area exposed at the beginning. It will definitely look better than if done with tweezers in small bits. Also buy the Speedball Varnish to seal your work after the glue has completely dried. It’s an important step and dries quickly.

Works as described.

Easy to use

I’ve used this for many things already and I love it. It rubs off if you mess up. If you let it dry all the way it has very strong adhesion for the type of glue it is. It will work for gold leaf obviously, but it’ll work for leather straps being kept in place on a chest or for reapplying old stickers or making your own window stickers! I love this stuff and a little goes a long way! Stir it first!

Works perfectly!

Works like a charm. I use it for gold leaf and other paper projects