Craftsman employing traditional techniques and shaping pieces of marble and semi-precious stones on a hand-powered emery wheel, Taj Mahal, Agra, India
A highly skilled craftsman shaping a highly-polished colored semi-precious stone for a Pietra dura or pietre dure called parchin kari in his small workshop at Agra in Uttar Pradesh, India. This decorative art is an inlay technique using cut and fitted highly-polished colored stones to create images for Indian table tops and other furniture. This technique has been preserved for hundreds of years and was employed to inlay the semi-precious jewels on the exterioir of the Taj Mahal, Agra, India
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Location: Taj Mahal, Agra, Utter Pradesh, India, Central Asia
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