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Process:
Step 1:
The primary step is to procure the metal and then convert it into sheets of the required thickness. Usually,
the people who place the order for making kadle also bring raw silver along with them otherwise
the artisan can also buy silver from the market and make kadle for selling them.
Step 2:
There are two techniques for making sheets from silver.
1. By beating the metal.
2. By compressing it in Taar patti machine.
Silver blocks or biscuits are melted and converted into silver rods.
These silver rods are hammered upon Eran or the anvil after taking the proper gauge of the silver rod
to have a specific width of the silver sheet. A round-edged hammer is used to beat the rod and after
repeated heating and hammering the rod a sheet comes out.
Another method is passing the rods through rolling millers (Taar Patti machine), which converts the
rod into the required thickness of silver sheets.
Step 3:
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The silver sheets are cut with the help of katiya or the cutter. Patterns or pharma are used to cut the
silver sheets into the desired shape. Vernier callipers or prakar is used by the artisan to take the measurement
of the feet and the ankle of a woman.
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(Fig 7.40)
Making sheets of silver
metal in Taar Patti machine.
(Fig 7.41)
Patterns of different sizes
of Kadla.
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