Kashmiri Wooden Handicrafts

Listing ID #3619313

All this is done entirely with hands without use of nails. The wood is processed, cut into buttons and panels and fixed in the ceiling in various floral and geometrical designs.Indeed a painstaking work, which once used to take months to finish a 10 feet by 10 feet ceiling. The uniqueness of this art is that when the ceiling is complete, it acquires a unique geometrical pattern. With fewer or no nails used at all, the Khatamband ceiling can easily be dissembled and re-assembled at another place.Khatamband is the art of constructing a ceiling by fitting small pieces of wood together in a geometrical pattern, all this is done with hands. The wood is cut into different shapes and designs and then fixed on the ceilings in various geometrical patterns.