Shahi Flower Vase - Bidri Wire Work

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Shahi Flower Vase - Bidri Wire work is a royal home decor accent for your humble abode. Beautify your interiors and tabletops with this amazingly handcrafted Bidri flower vase. It is one of the exclusive items and hence goroots takes pride in offering such a wonderful design for your home. This vase has a majestic appeal of its own. An intriguing shape and an even spectacular stamped design brings out the right kind of beauty in such a minimalist way.

The Shahi Flower Vase Bidri Wire work is handcrafted from the alloy of copper and zinc. The gunpowder black finish is the final product that comes into existence due to the mixture of the two elements. Lastly, the artefact is engraved with floral motifs that use pure silver metal for a spotless shine.

It is made to resemble as a Mughal water jug and hence to own such a brilliant piece is a lifetime opportunity. Grab it right away and decorate your home in the most unique way. With or without flowers, just place this vase at any corner of your house and it will make look the surroundings more magical.   

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.