Nano-Microplate Gold Clay for Handcraft Jewelry and Decoration

Gold clay is a crafting medium consisting of gold particles mixed with an organic binder and water for making jewelry or decoration.The clay can be shaped by hand,textured,carved,formed or using molds.After drying and burning,the organic binder and water were decomposed and the gold particles were transformed to its final metal state.Although,gold clay is very expensive,it is useful to decorate the silver clay designed jewelry or small sculptures.In this research,nano-microplate gold and specific organic binder was used for producing nano-microplate gold clay.The objectives of this research are to study binder's type and ratios for optimum producing gold clay,and to study the heating condition for making silver and gold clay jewelry.The result showed that the clay can be fired with heating temperature at 900°C for an hour by electric kiln.The physical properties of the gold clay at different heating temperatures were determined.Furthermore,prototype of jewelry using the clay was