The Makers of Metal Inlay
In the Orient inlay is one of the most popular
techniques for decorating metal objects. A sorter decorative metal
(gold, silver or copper) is combined with a harder ground metal (bronze
or steel) by being hammered on to a roughened surface or into a lower
ground prepared by picking put the pattern with a burin. The earliest
examples of inlaid metal objects from the Islamic world can be dated to
the ninth and tenth centuries.
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