Butterfly Candle Holder Pair
$70.00
There's a way a table looks when it's lit for people you love — flames set here and there, and something among them that looks alive. These are a pair of brass butterflies, wings spread, each holding a candle at its centre, cast and finished by hand in brass in...
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.
Naqsheen
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 piece
Butterfly Candle Holder Pair
$70.00
