Antique Solid Brass Milk Pot
Before refrigeration, milk was kept in brass — drawn each morning, set on a shelf, poured through the day. A pot like this one was an everyday vessel in subcontinental homes, in daily use long enough to outlive the kitchen it began in. It is antique solid brass, decades old,...
The Craft
Hand-Hammering
Raised from a flat sheet under thousands of hammer blows, the dimpled surface a record of the making.
Cutwork
Openwork lace pierced clean through the metal by hand with a fine needle.
Engraving / Qalamzani
Cut into the metal line by line with a fine steel chisel, the qalam.
Used in this pieceNaqsheen
Floral and geometric patterns chased into the surface freehand by the naqash.
Sand Casting
Molten brass poured into a sand mould packed by hand, then broken open to free the piece.
Used in this pieceA Note from Amara
— Amara, Founder · Maeraas