Vintage Brass Elevated Cutwork Dish
$52.00
Before a guest had said a word, the sweets were already out — and the dish they sat in mattered. This is one of those: a footed brass oval pierced into lace, an engraved bunch of flowers at its heart. It's worked in brass by hand, the body pierced into...
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.
Used in this pieceEngraving / 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.