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Metal craft products include metal images of popular god and
goddesses of Hinduism and Buddhism and utilitarian utensils.
These products are mostly produced by household units
clustered around the city of Lalitpur (Patan) and the
district of Bhojpur in the east of Nepal.
In Nepal, making metal images is a very old art. These are
produced with the lost wax method of casting. This method of
casting is done by preparing a wax model, covering it with
varieties of clay, heating the piece so that the wax is
melted , extract the liquid wax so that cavity is created ,
pouring metal into the cavity , cooling it and the original
model is translated into the metal image. The metal image
out of the casting is very rough. The metal
statue is then painted as per the specifications of religion
or as per the request of the client. This complicated job
requires an artist's conception, proper technology, an
engineer's perfection and the skillful hands of a craftsman. |
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Budda (partly gold)
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Padma-Shambhava
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Metal Ganesh
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Budda-(oxidised)
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Tara-(partly-gold)
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Check Budda
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