Brass Tabarruk bowl hand-engraved with Surah Yaseen, Surah Muzammil, Ayat ul Kursi and the Four Qul, made in Lahore

Surah Yaseen, Surah Muzammil, Ayat ul Kursi and 4 Qul Tabarruk Brass Bowl

$89.00

The most complete of our Tabarruk bowls — Surah Yaseen, Surah Muzammil, Ayat ul Kursi and the Four Qul, all carried around a single bowl of brass. It's hand-engraved in Lahore in qalamzani, the four sets of verses worked line by line into the metal — months of an artisan's...

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 piece

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.

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Silver