Made by
Showkat Ahmad Bhat
Papier-mâché and walnut wood · Zadibal, Srinagar, Kashmir · 22 years
Builds papier-mâché forms and carves walnut in the same two-room workshop.
Namda Felt Rug
Wool pressed into felt by hand — no loom, no knots — then chain-stitched in a single colour.
₹9,80090 × 150 cm · wool felt
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This piece
Namda is made by wetting, layering and pressing raw wool underfoot until the fibres lock. The result is a dense felt with no weave. Ours are left mostly plain and finished with a single-colour ari chain stitch around the field.
Showkat works both crafts that Srinagar is known for indoors: sakhtsazi, the building of forms from paper pulp, and walnut carving. The painting on his boxes is done by a naqash with a squirrel-hair brush and ground pigment, then lacquered in four to six sanded layers. His walnut trays are cut from a single board and finished in oil so they can be re-oiled at home.
What's inside
- Weight
- 90 × 150 cm · wool felt
- Lot record
- Issued when the lot is made
- Availability
- Short runs, 2027
Care & use
Air the piece rather than washing it. Fold with acid-free tissue and keep it dry and out of direct light; for pashmina, dry-clean only, and rarely. Hand-made work settles with use — small irregularities are the record of the hand that made it, not a fault.