Silver-plated Brass Tissue Box
Even the box that holds the tissues can be worth looking at — this one is silver-plated brass, worked all over in subcontinental florals. It's made by hand in Lahore, the brass cut and engraved in heritage floral patterns and silver-plated to a soft shine, built to hold a standard...
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.
Used in this pieceSand Casting
Molten brass poured into a sand mould packed by hand, then broken open to free the piece.