Rosewood Wire Inlay Box

Product Description

Wire inlay art is very antique and old genre art of decoration for looking very artistic and royal. It had been used by Maharaja, emperor or king and royal family. This is very old antique art which is in extinction. A good Artisan of this art is found very rarely in the India and Asian country. Because of lengthy and very hard process of making of wire inlay product it is going into endangered or extinction. You can find this art in old fort, palace and museum on royal wood items like jewelry box, almirah, chests, weapons and all the items which is made by wood or similar type of thing. Kings or royal family uses this wire inlay art for showing himself as an apocarpous from others.

Wire Inlay is a type of decoration with what appears to be a thin wire; usually gold, silver wire inlayed into the solid materials but in today’s present concern only brass and copper wire is used in it due to inexpensive metal. It is actually a small ribbon of metal that is inlet edgewise and only the very edge of the ribbon is exposed, appearing like wire. This is done with small hand made chisels and cutter. After that artisan take a product which has been made by wood or similar type of thing. He makes a design on it by engraving through chisels. After that he put into a metal wire in engraved design with help of hammer. After inlayed a wire in design of the item he fill the gum or adhesive pest into the product design for filling small hole of engraving. After filling he rubs the surface of design of wire inlaying through emery paper for finishing. Polishing and laminating is the last and final stage of this Wire Inlay art. visit ekaadri. com for more products.