Greetings. I am donating a Kingsley Hot Foil Embossing Machine to our wonderful Creative arts section. Since I will be at DMS Thursday the 17th for the machine shop meeting, I’m hosting an informal get together for those that want to see it in action and want to learn to use it.
Don’t know what it is? The Kingsley is a old school method of bonding a gold metallic foil (now there are lots of colors) to a non-metallic material. Examples include old Bibles and how the name was embossed in gold on it. Wallets, napkins, ribbons, business cards, invitations, you get the picture. These days, we rely on lasers and printers of some sort to do the same thing, but there is just a certain elegance that comes from doing it in a gold foil.
And for our leatherworkers - you may know that vegetable tanned leather can be stamped but chromium tanned leather cannot because it is softened and bounces back up. Hot stamp embossing is how this is generally done on chrome tanned. whether you add the foil or not the heat activates the salts in the leather and leaves a permanent embossing.
I’ve created an event on the calendar, so just in case it doesn’t make it up in time (or at all), just know I’ll be there. Come Join me this Thursday. Cheers!
