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Traditional silver articles like 'handas' or water
containers, spice bottles, baskets and trays are popular
worldover - white metal articles too, command sizeable
exports. Water carrier, 'badla', made of zinc, a speciality
of Jodhpur, is one of the flourishing industries of
Rajasthan. 'Badlas', usually round, semi-circular or
rectangular are sometimes fitted with ice chambers and taps.
In 'Koftagari' or damascening work, mostly practiced in
Alwar and Jaipur, one metal is encrusted into another in the
form of wire. Popular articles are swords, daggers and
shields. |