Flower Vase - Bidri Sheet Work

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Brighten up the interiors of your living space with the brilliantly handcrafted Flower Vase Bidri Sheet Work offered online exclusively at goroots. It is a superior product of metal handicraft and a marvel in its own tone. An artefact you will love to treasure forever, this piece of home decor is a must if you are looking to add a touch of beauty and elegance to your home furniture. Put in your favourite flowers and use this amazing Bidri vase by placing it on tabletops, kitchen shelves, drawers or cabinets anywhere in the house and let it bring out aesthetic beauty.

This flower vase is one of the most popular Bidriware products and just like others, this one too features contrasting shades of the black backdrop and the silhouette of the rich sketched work engraved through the body of the vase using pure silver. The designs are familiar and more attention is given to the minute detailing such as the floral and the leaf patterns making it a right Bidri sheet work artefact.

About Bidri Art

The Bidri Art is identified as one of the most popular metal handicrafts that originated in Bidar region of Karnataka. It was first introduced during the rule of the Bahamani Sultans in around 14th century C.E. The township of Bidar lends the art its name Bidriware and it is still a prominent centre for crafting intriguing metallic products.

The handmade Bidri products are valued as a symbol of wealth. The metal used in Bidri products is a blackened alloy copper and zinc inlaid with fine sheets of pure silver metal. The fine motifs and the wirework with which Bidriware is laced, gives the products a unique definition altogether. Moreover, Bidri handicraft products are in great demand in the export market due to its gorgeous inlay work.

Procedure

Unique Bidriware products are handcrafted from an alloy of copper and zinc by casting in the ratio 1:16. While the zinc content gives the alloy a rich jet black colour, copper provides it with a noticeable lustre and robustness.

A mould of soil is made malleable by adding resin and castor oil. After the molten metal has been poured into this mould, the cast piece is smoothened by filing for a shiny look and feel. This casting is coated with a concentrated solution of copper sulphate that provides it with a temporary black coating on which the designs are etched freehand.

The designs are usually the typical poppy flowers and vine creepers, stars and Ashrafi-ki-booti. Some may also feature traditional motifs in the form of Arabic script or the Persian Rose.

The casting is then securely placed in a clamp to engrave it with intricate motifs using small chisels. Its grooves are then carefully hammered with flattened strips of pure silver metal or fine wires for a desired look  

Before the Bidriware artefact could be sold out in the market it is filed, chiselled, polished and smoothened to remove deformities caused due to the black coating. This process results in a strikingly noticeable silver inlay shining on a dark metallic background.

Region

The art of Bidri handicraft is widely practised in Bidar, Karnataka as well as in Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh. Purnia in Bihar, Lucknow in Uttar Pradesh and Murshidabad in West Bengal are few of the other regions of the country that produce excellent Bidri products.