TextureLoRALab/SHIFUKU-Gold-Leaf-SDXL-LoRA

SHIFUKU Gold Leaf — Traditional Japanese Gold Leaf Texture LoRA

A texture LoRA trained on real gold leaf (金箔), not AI-generated images.

What makes this different

Most texture/style LoRAs are trained on AI-generated or digital images. This LoRA is trained on macro photographs of physical gold leaf — capturing grain structure, light diffraction, aging patina, and the subtle wrinkles left by craftsmen hammering the foil.

The training data comes from the real material, not from pictures of the material.

This is Texture Transplant (質感移植) — extracting texture from its original substrate and making it function in a new environment.

Training Details

Parameter	Value
Base model	DreamShaperXL alpha2 (SDXL)
Training tool	kohya-ss/sd-scripts
Training images	50 macro photographs of real gold leaf
Resolution	1024×1024
Epochs	10
Network dim / alpha	128 / 64
Learning rate	1e-4
Optimizer	AdamW8bit
Scheduler	cosine_with_restarts
Noise offset	0.1
Caption method	BLIP2 + manual correction

Recommended Usage

• Trigger words: gold leaf texture, kinpaku
• Weight: 0.7–0.9
• Sampler: DPM++ 2M Karras, 25–35 steps
• Compatible with: SDXL 1.0 based models

Links

• Civitai: SHIFUKU Gold Leaf
• Blog: texture-lora-lab.com
• X: @TextureLoRALab
• Book: 「引き算のAI」(forthcoming)

About the creator

Fine art graduate (Japanese painting, Kanazawa College of Art) with an MA in Museum Studies (UK, Merit). Researching texture digitization through AI — bridging traditional craft materials and generative models.

Statement on artistic expression

I have no intention of infringing upon the expression of artists and craftspeople working outside the digital realm.

What I do — transplanting texture into AI — is an experiment. The generated images are countless sketches, not finished works.

This does not replace the hand of the craftsman who beats gold leaf, nor does it shortcut the layering of urushi lacquer. I do not pretend to reproduce the hamon a swordsmith forges into steel.

Texture Transplant is merely one means of recording the beauty held within physical materials and experimenting with it in digital space. The beauty of material itself exists only within the material.

License

Commercial use permitted. Credit appreciated but not required.

#SubtractiveAI #TextureTransplant #引き算のAI

🔗 研究サイト・技術ブログ

texture-lora-lab.com — TextureLoRALabの公式サイト

• 質感LoRA学習の完全マスターコース → texture-lora-lab.com/pack
• LoRA学習技術ブログ → texture-lora-lab.com/blog
• RunPod・Kohya_ssを使った学習ノウハウを公開中