Varaq Ribbon

Gold and silver biscuits of 99% purity are processed through a roller machine that flattens them into long ribbon-like strips of approximately a 1’’width. Shakeel Baig owns and operates several of these roller machines that provide this metallic ribbon that is further transformed into the gossamer -fine Varaq. The ribbon is cut into approximately 1 to 1.5’” and each of these squares is interleaved between the loose sheets of German paper. This special paper, yellow and plasticky in appearance, has a high tensile strength that can take the continuous and repeated hammering without wearing down easily.