A Burmese dha with silver and copper koftgari

[Mark]

Originally Posted by Battara

Nice puppy, and the technical word used among silversmiths and shop talk is.....inlay.

The technique here is to roughen the whole area of the design, then hammer wire and small leaves of silver onto the roughened surface, then heat it to anneal the silver to the steel. Would this still be considered inlay? I assumed that was something that was set into an incised or chiseled design. That is the technique used to make the writing on the spine.