Yasmin Hand-Engraved Silver-Plated Brass Tray
There's a quiet pleasure in serving even the small things — the appetisers, the after-dinner mithai — on something that was made slowly, by hand. This twelve-inch tray is hand-engraved in Lahore and silver-plated to a polished shine, the floral work a little different on every piece. Serve from it,...
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.