A professional who beats gold strips into gold leaf, using hammers, for use in decorating products, such as books, furniture, and signs. Responsibilities include:

• Cuts gold strip into one inch squares and interlaminates squares with leaves of cutch (packet of vellum sheets).
• Hammers cutch to reduce thickness and expand area of squares to form gold sheets of specified dimensions.
• Cuts sheets into quarters and interlaminates quartered sheets with leaves of shoder (packet of skins).
• Hammers shoder to form gold leaf of specified dimensions.