Accent Gold For Silver paint, AGS, is used to apply 24 carat pure-gold decoration, highlights, and texture, to fine-silver jewellery, including pieces made from Aida Art Clay silver clay or Mitsubishi PMC precious metal clay.

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Since its discovery about 6000 years ago, we've used gold to make ceremonial symbols, coins, containers, decorations, jewellery, medals, statues, and trophies. It generally represents prestige, purity, royalty, value, and wealth.

Pure gold is a dense, shiny, soft metal. It has a bright yellow colour and a rich lustre traditionally considered attractive, more so as it doesn't oxidize and deteriorate in air or water.

It's more malleable and ductile than any other pure metal: one gramme of gold can be beaten into a sheet of at least one square metre, eventually becoming translucent. It's been estimated that all the gold ever refined would form one single 20 metre cube.

Accent Gold For Silver paint can be applied with a small brush or a shaped tool to fired silver clay. After drying, the piece is fired again to sinter the gold and bond it to the silver. After cooling, the gold can be burnished, or given a matte, textured, or lustre finish.

Accent Gold For Silver is made by Jewelry Material Innovations. It's sold as two parts: a screw-top pot containing one gramme of 24 carat pure gold powder, and a dropper-bottle of non-toxic water-based medium.

AccentGold is pure 24 carat gold, and has a rich deep colour, whereas Aida Art Clay gold clay paste and Mitsubishi Aura 22 are both 22 carat alloys: 91.7% gold and 8.3% silver.

For most effects, AGS is easier to use, and less wasteful, than gold leaf, especially on contoured surfaces where gold leaf would probably tear. And it's thicker than an electro-plated layer.

Comprehensive instructions are included with the products, although you could do a one-day course at The Kitiki Studio.

All particulates represent a health risk if they're breathed in, so it's important to wear a HEPA mask when mixing powders, handling charcoal, sanding dried clays, and cleaning out your kiln. Ideally, use protective glasses.

Kilns, clays, stainless steel containers, charcoals, masks, protective glasses, and other tools and materials, are in the on-line shop: use the shop link below the menu bar near the top of the page.

The Kitiki Studio currently offers jewellery-making classes, demonstrations, masterclasses, and workshops, and Art Clay Levels One and Two courses taught by Aida-certified teachers, in the pretty village of Corfe Castle, in Dorset, England.

There are also classes for related products and techniques, art events, craft demonstrations, guest-teacher classes, the local arts weeks, studio open-days, and general jewellery-making opportunities. If you're interested, mail or call.

To learn more about jewellery-making, transfer to The Kitiki Studio using the Kitiki link above the menu bar near the top of the page.

Paragon Kilns is a Cherry Heaven on-line shop and an EU distributor, sales, spares, support, and repair centre for kilns: it's not a bead, ceramics, crafts, glass, or metal-clay shop, selling a few kilns to a market niche.

Although it's an internet resource, you can still mail or call an engineer about kilns, power supplies, home diagnostics, repairs, spares, safety issues, a special project, or reselling opportunities.

To learn more about larger kilns, transfer now to Paragon Kilns using the Paragon Kilns link above the menu bar near the top of the page.

The on-line shop link is below the menu bar near the top of the page.  Alternatively, visit Cherry Heaven in Corfe Castle.