One of a kind, hand-made backgammon game made using Khatam art. The materials used to create these board games are camel bone, wood, brass, and mother of pearl.
Khatam Art: Art forms made by decorating the surface of wooden articles with delicate pieces of wood, bone and metal with precisely cut geometrical shapes. Upon crafting a khatam, the common materials used in the construction of inlaid articles are gold, silver, brass, aluminum and twisted wire. The inlaid work is the art of decorating the surfaces with small triangles in regular geometrical shapes. These geometrical shapes are formed by placing small triangles side by side. The inlaid work is formed by parallelogram triangles made of bone, wood, and round wires. with a thickness of 2mm glued on surfaces. The more these triangles are fine and the more the designs and shapes are regular, the more the inlaid work is of high quality.
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