Vintage Style Hammered Copper Kettle
Before kettles whistled and switched themselves off, they simply sat on the stove and did their work — and a copper one meant the house took its tea seriously. This vintage hammered copper kettle is shaped in the old style: a rounded copper body, a curved spout, an arched handle....
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.
