“Please don’t describe our work in too much detail,” comes the greeting from Yamada Ritsu, general manager of Gyokusendō Tsubame, as we began our visit to the head office of the long-established ...

Copper cups, hammered by hand, are a specialty at Gyokusendo, a Japanese family company established in 1816. Workers crafting copperware at Gyokusendo, one of many metalworking companies in the ...

Highly ornamental, locally manufactured copperware is the symbol of this small village. Kebleyi Aliyev is a coppersmith who lives and works in Lahij. He tells us that his workshop is 300 years old. It ...

Saying “Daibutsu” reminds many people of the Great Buddha statue at Tōdaiji in Nara or the open-air seated giant at Kamakura’s Kōtokuin. Those are two widely known historic “greats,” but Japanese tend ...

An exhibition on silver-inlaid black copperware is taking place at the Yunnan Nationalities Museum from May 18, featuring 126 art items and a live demonstration from a lineage holder in the making of ...

Counting of BMC votes to begin at 10 am across 23 centres in Mumbai ...

Lahic village in the Caucasus mountains is isolated in winter, but in summer visitors are enticed by its increasingly rare artisans. Lahic, one of Azerbaijan’s oldest villages, was once the country’s ...

A shop owner is seen at his shop in Safafeer copper market in Baghdad, Iraq on Nov. 19, 2019. (Xinhua/Khalil Dawood) For hundreds of years, the Safafeer copperware market in downtown Baghdad was one ...

A shop owner is seen at his shop on Nov 19 in Safafeer copper market in Baghdad, Iraq. [Photo/XINHUA] BAGHDAD - For hundreds of years, the Safafeer copperware market in downtown Baghdad was one of the ...