JK Art Emporium

The Kashmiri Artisan also produces excellent products of copperware consisting mostly of cooking pots and ‘Samovars’ (tea kettle of Russian origin) and sundry articles for the household or the mantelpiece. The copperware of Srinagar is admiringly adopted for electroplating. The old city abounds with shops where objects of copper line the walls, the floor and even the ceiling made generally for the local Market. Crafts-men can often be seen engraving objects of household utility- Samovar, Bowls, plates and trays. Floral, stylized geometric, leaf and sometimes calligraphic, motifs are engraved or embossed on copper and occasionally silver, to cover the entire surface with intricate designs which are then oxidized, the better to stand out from the background. The works know as “ naqash” determines the price of the objects, as does the weight.