goldbeating

Example sentences from the Web for gold-beating

• Even in the tombs at Beni-Hassan we find the process of gold-beating illustrated in full.

  A History of Art in Ancient Egypt, Vol. II (of 2) |Georges Perrot

• The ancient Romans were not ignorant of the process of gold-beating, although they did not carry it so far as we do.

  Popular Technology; Volume 2 |Edward Hazen

• The arts of wire-drawing and gold-beating shew its wonderful ductility.

  Elements of the Theory and Practice of Chymistry, 5th ed. |Pierre Joseph Macquer

• In the city are canneries of vegetables and fruit, glass-works and a gold-beating establishment.

  Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 3 |Various