Hammered Copper Sauce Pan
The pan you reach for most isn't the showpiece — it's the one that handles the morning milk for chai, the sauce that needs watching, the reduction you don't want to scorch. This tin-lined hammered copper saucepan is raised by hand from a single sheet of copper, lined inside with...
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 pieceCutwork
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.