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Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Dish imbedded with gold, 1700 CE - 1900 CE

Dish imbedded with gold, 1700 CE - 1900 CE

16 x 16
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There are different types of inlay methods known as koftgari. One is deep inlay where a pattern is incised into the blade and thick wire is hammered into the undercut...
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There are different types of inlay methods known as koftgari. One is deep inlay where a pattern is incised into the blade and thick wire is hammered into the undercut grooves. The other, traditional koftgari, consists of crosshatching the pattern into the surface and drawing patterns over it with a sharp implement, and hammering thin wire into it. The last is golf/silver foil hammered onto a crosshatched surface. I think this is what is most often seen, as it was the most affordable method. In some cases the pattern can be punched in and the gold applied to the dotted pattern.
Koftgari is not an inlay art its an overlay art because the gold/silver wire is pressed on crosshatching by a too Its really a long process to do that art and it cannot be explained verbaly.
In India, three types of koftgari art done which are...... Te-hen-shah work- its an inlaid art in which gold/silver is hammered on the deep chisseled design, you cant feel the gold/silver on the iron as we can see in teh-tula wor Koftgari work - its an overlay art which is done by pressing gold/silver wire by special tool on crosshatching and then its heated and pressed by a polish hakik stone ( not normal stone is use). In this also you can feel gold/silve Teh-tula work - its also a kind of overlay art in which we can feel gold/silver work on the objects, they just seems embosed work, its really hard to find this work.
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Haj Ibrahim koftegari in Gojorat Panjab"
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