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Indian and Islamic Craft Traditions

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Man with rameta (marathi) a bast fiber plant used locally in the Deccan for papermaking

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Manuscript decoration

Marbling as combined decoration

Manuscript decoration

Marbling as combined decoration

Marbled page stenciled for calligraphy

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Marbling as a backdrop for calligraphy

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Marbling ingredients on a tray including: multani dust (fullers earth) right side, pigments in shells, fenugreek seeds, alum, stones to be ground for pigment, tree sap, jal jamni

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Marbling ingredients: resin and roots, kikar gum (gum arabic)

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Marbling ingredients: resin, fenugreek, pigment, alim, multani dust and plant

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Marbling with stylus

Moving pigments with a stylus

Maulana Farooq Wasfi who in his youth made the transparent sheets from animal membrane and described the process

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