To achieve this, a powder mix of apple weans of orpiment and pod juice is placed on the parts that should not be marked with gold.
Then the gold leaves are attached and firmly rubbed on entire surface of objects.
Then the objects are immersed in water and cleaned.
The gold leaf placed on the covered parts of the mixture of orpiment swell and fall leaving him out against the black background pattern in gold. In northern Thailand lacquered objects are popular as household items such as betel nut services, bowls, trays, boxes and jugs of water.
In the rest of Thailand lacquer cabinets or you lai rot nam containing the Tripitaka (Buddhist canon) are common in monasteries.