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Indian and Islamic Craft Traditions

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Line guides for calligraphy

Forms for transferring line guides Kumar Sangram Singh collection

Marbling with stylus

Moving pigments with a stylus

Stencil over marbling

Strange stencil over marbled page for calligraphy

Afghani marbling

Marbling as background pattern

Manuscript decoration

Marbling as combined decoration

Manuscript decoration

Marbling as combined decoration

Ivory paper polisher is owned by 74 year-old Abdul Rahim Maya Mohammed a 3rd generation paper polisher. Sheets from kagzi papermakers were dried on the walls with starch. When dry they were polished with an ivory burnisher atop a wooden support. Individuals from the Morka community in the Ahmedabad area used ivory to polish paper. In 1920 there were over 100 workshops (paper was often used for account books) but they stopped by the 1950's due to decline handmade paper use.

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Women sorting paper

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Ivory paper polisher is owned by 74 year-old Abdul Rahim Maya Mohammed a 3rd generation paper polisher. Sheets from kagzi papermakers were dried on the walls with starch. When dry they were polished with an ivory burnisher atop a wooden support. Individuals from the Morka community in the Ahmedabad area used ivory to polish paper. In 1920 there were over 100 workshops (paper was often used for account books) but they stopped by the 1950's due to decline handmade paper use.

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Woman inspecting paper

Tags: Finishing, Sheet Drying

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