After cutting the paper came "mounting," that is to say layering on the tinfoil. The tinfoil is naturally silver, so if you wanted to make gold paper money, then it was necessary to boil the flower of the locust tree to get the gold coloring, which was then applied to the paper.
斬紙後是「裱金」，也就是黏錫箔，錫箔本身是銀色，若要當金紙使用，得再塗上一層槐花熬煮的金藥，才會變成金紙，接下按天金、壽金、甲馬等，以刻板拓出紅色圖案稱「蓋面」。