khatamband - Craft Documentation & Online Research Archive https://gaatha.org Indian Craft online Tue, 29 Mar 2022 05:43:35 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.0.11 https://gaatha.org/wp-content/uploads/gaatha-logo-63x63.png khatamband - Craft Documentation & Online Research Archive https://gaatha.org 32 32 Khatamband~Srinagar https://gaatha.org/Craft-of-India/research-khatamband-craft-srinagar/ https://gaatha.org/Craft-of-India/research-khatamband-craft-srinagar/#respond Sun, 17 Mar 2019 13:03:00 +0000 http://143.110.249.195/?post_type=listing&p=6347 Khatamband is a specialty in the art of Kashmiri woodwork and compromises the making of ceilings of rooms, from thin panels of pinewood, cut into geometrical designs. The ceilings are made by fitting small pieces of wood (preferably walnut or deodar wood) into each other in geometrical patterns. Brought to Kashmir in 1541 by Mirza […]

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]]> Khatamband is a specialty in the art of Kashmiri woodwork and compromises the making of ceilings of rooms, from thin panels of pinewood, cut into geometrical designs. The ceilings are made by fitting small pieces of wood (preferably walnut or deodar wood) into each other in geometrical patterns. Brought to Kashmir in 1541 by Mirza Hyder Doulat, the process is not done through machines but, painstakingly hand crafted as the pieces are made to be held together purely by the joinery and no glue or nails.

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