Hand-hammered copper kashkul, a boat-shaped Sufi dervish bowl, made in Lahore

Copper Kashkul

$80.00

The kashkul began as a wandering bowl — carried by Sufi dervishes who filled it with whatever was given after they'd recited poetry and offered counsel on the road. This one is hand-hammered from solid copper in Lahore, its boat-like shape rising at one end, the surface left textured by...

The Craft

Hand-Hammering

Raised from a flat sheet under thousands of hammer blows, the dimpled surface a record of the making.

Used in this piece

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.

A Note from Amara
I kept coming back to the kashkul because it was never meant to own anything — a dervish carried it open, taking only what the road gave. There is a humility in that shape I wanted on my own table. Each one is raised by hand from a single sheet of copper in our Lahore workshop; the dents you feel are where the hammer fell.

— Amara, Founder · Maeraas

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