Manuscript artists were the OG (original gangster) art hackers. They rocked those vibrant colors and intricate details with ...

intricate gold leaf patterns were used to hide errors instead of discarding the expensive parchment. The text in the Blue Qur'an manuscript is written in Kufic script, a style of Arabic writing ...

Researchers at the Zayed National Museum (ZNM) in Abu Dhabi have uncovered hidden text beneath intricate gold leaf patterns on a page of the Blue Quran. This ninth-century manuscript is famed for ...

The thousand-year-old manuscript contains the earliest surviving ... a forger paints copies of medieval evangelical portraits in gold leaf onto four pages in the book, presumably in an attempt ...

Some of the very first manuscripts used gold leaf embossing to decorate intricate calligraphy. You can also see it often used to decorate the sides of religious texts. Professional foil stamping ...