历史学家证实,早在古埃及和希腊,人们就已采用金箔来装饰艺术品,使其增添美感。熟练的工匠能将金属中最具韧性的金,锤打成极薄的金箔,其薄的程度足以使人们透过它看清每个字母。到了中世纪,人们在使非金属物品的表面产生金属光泽,以及采用凸版热压印方法使物品闪闪发光方面,都已达到了很高的水平。几个世纪以后,印刷商和书藉装订商开始 Historians have confirmed that as early as ancient Egypt and Greece, people have used gold foil to decorate artwork to make it more beautiful. Skilled artisans hammer the most resilient metal in the metal into extremely thin gold foil, thin enough to allow one to see each letter through it. By the Middle Ages, people had reached a very high level of metallic luster on the surface of non-metallic objects, as well as sparkling objects using relief hot embossing. Centuries later, printers and books began as bookbills