{"id":954,"date":"2022-03-08T09:36:38","date_gmt":"2022-03-08T09:36:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reknowva.com\/gi\/home\/?p=954"},"modified":"2022-03-23T06:59:36","modified_gmt":"2022-03-23T06:59:36","slug":"banaras-metal-repouse-craft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/164.100.192.28\/home\/?p=954","title":{"rendered":"Banaras Metal Repouse Craft"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"modal-ready\"><p>\u2018Banaras Metal repousse\u2019 is the art of moulding showpieces. \u2018Repousse\u2019 is raising a design in relief on metal from the back or inside using hammers and punches. The whole technique is sometimes referred to as \u2018chasing\u2019, or embossing (Khal \u2013 Ubhar Ka Kam). The art has been preserved in the by-lanes of Varanasi in Uttar Pradesh for generations by the Kasera community. The techniques of repousse date from antiquity It is done on all manner of articles, which are first moulded into the required shape and burnished. The engraver traces the design with a chisel, filling up the open ground with dots and spots produced by punching. The metals used are brass, copper and bell metal. All the steps are made by hand only. Traditional motifs of flowers, sikargah, figures and various type of symbols are used on the products.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1675\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1675\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1675\" src=\"http:\/\/164.100.192.28\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Banaras-Metal-Repouse-Craft_3-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Banaras Metal Repouse Craft\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"http:\/\/164.100.192.28\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Banaras-Metal-Repouse-Craft_3-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/164.100.192.28\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Banaras-Metal-Repouse-Craft_3-768x511.jpg 768w, http:\/\/164.100.192.28\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Banaras-Metal-Repouse-Craft_3-750x500.jpg 750w, http:\/\/164.100.192.28\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Banaras-Metal-Repouse-Craft_3.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1675\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Banaras Metal Repouse Craft<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1674\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1674\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1674\" src=\"http:\/\/164.100.192.28\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Banaras-Metal-Repouse-Craft_2-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"Banaras Metal Repouse Craft\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"http:\/\/164.100.192.28\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Banaras-Metal-Repouse-Craft_2-300x168.jpg 300w, http:\/\/164.100.192.28\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Banaras-Metal-Repouse-Craft_2-768x431.jpg 768w, http:\/\/164.100.192.28\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Banaras-Metal-Repouse-Craft_2-750x421.jpg 750w, http:\/\/164.100.192.28\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Banaras-Metal-Repouse-Craft_2.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1674\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Banaras Metal Repouse Craft<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018Banaras Metal repousse\u2019 is the art of moulding showpieces. \u2018Repousse\u2019 is raising a design in relief on metal from the back or inside using hammers and punches. The whole technique is sometimes referred to as \u2018chasing\u2019, or embossing (Khal \u2013 Ubhar Ka Kam). The art has been preserved in the by-lanes of Varanasi in Uttar [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1673,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[72,12,3,8],"tags":[13,9],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/164.100.192.28\/home\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/954"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/164.100.192.28\/home\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/164.100.192.28\/home\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/164.100.192.28\/home\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/164.100.192.28\/home\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=954"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/164.100.192.28\/home\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/954\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1678,"href":"http:\/\/164.100.192.28\/home\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/954\/revisions\/1678"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/164.100.192.28\/home\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/164.100.192.28\/home\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/164.100.192.28\/home\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/164.100.192.28\/home\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}