To achieve this result, a mixture of powder of orpiment de sèvre Apple and juice of husk is placed on the parties which shall not be marked with gold.
Then gold foils are attached and firmly rubbed over the entire surface of objects.
Then the objects are immersed in water and cleaned.
The gold leaf on the covered parts of the mixture of orpiment swell and fall leaving the black background highlighted motifs in gold. In the North of Thailand the lacquerware are popular as household utensils such as services of betel nut, bowls, trays, boxes and jugs of water.
In the rest of Thailand offices lacquers or tu lai rot nam containing the Tripitaka (Buddhist canon) are common in the monasteries.