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Making Process of Bell Metal Bowls

The Craft of Utensils
by
Prof. Ravi Mokashi Punekar,Menuolhoulie Kire and Tanima Das
DoD, IIT Guwahati
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  • Raw material.

  • An iron vessel containing raw material is placed in the fire vent.

  • Process of melting the raw material.

  • Piping hot liquid metal is poured over the earthen crucibles.

  • Earthen crucibles.

  • Piping hot liquid metal.

  • Bell metal ingots.

  • The rough edges of the bowl are filed off manually.

  • Carving imprints on the bell metalware.

  • Carved bell metalware.

  • Bhor mara or carving rings on the bowl.

  • Final touched bell metal bowl.

Raw material.

An iron vessel containing raw material is placed in the fire vent.

Process of melting the raw material.

Piping hot liquid metal is poured over the earthen crucibles.

Earthen crucibles.

Piping hot liquid metal.

Bell metal ingots.

The rough edges of the bowl are filed off manually.

Carving imprints on the bell metalware.

Carved bell metalware.

Bhor mara or carving rings on the bowl.

Final touched bell metal bowl.

Sarthebari is home to the bell metal industry of Assam. The craftsmen still follow the indigenous process of melting the raw material. After hammering the raw material into small pieces these are put inside an iron vessel and placed in the fire vent. Once it takes a complete molten form, the iron vessel is taken out and the hot liquid metal is poured over the flat round surface of the earthen crucibles which is previously dabbed with mustard oil.

The molten metal solidifies forming small round, bell metal ingots. These metal ingots are then again burnt in a fire vent, to soften them and are then hammered continuously to give them the required shape. After the rough shape is formed, the bowl is beaten with a small hammer to give it a final shape.

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Raw material.

An iron vessel containing raw material is placed in the fire vent.

Process of melting the raw material.

Piping hot liquid metal is poured over the earthen crucibles.

Earthen crucibles.

Piping hot liquid metal.

Bell metal ingots.

The rough edges of the bowl are filed off manually.

Carving imprints on the bell metalware.

Carved bell metalware.

Bhor mara or carving rings on the bowl.

Final touched bell metal bowl.


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