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BOMBAY FURNITURE

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Originally appearing in Volume V04, Page 185 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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FURNITURE . " Bombay See also:blackwood furniture " is a See also:term applied to a rather extensive class of articles manufactured in the See also:city of Bombay and in the towns of See also:Surat and See also:Ahmedabad in See also:India. The See also:wood used is Shisham or blackwood (Dalbergia), a hard-grained dark-coloured See also:timber which with proper treatment assumes a beautiful natural See also:polish. Much of the so-called Bombay furniture is clumsy and inelegant in See also:form, defects which it is suggested by experts, like See also:Sir See also:George See also:Birdwood, it owes to the circumstance that the See also:original See also:models were Dutch. Some of the smaller articles, such as See also:flower stands, small tables, and ornamental stands, are, however, of exceedingly graceful See also:contour, and See also:good examples are highly prized by collectors. The See also:carving at its best is See also:lace-like in See also:character, and apart from its inherent beauty is attractive on See also:account of the ingenuity shown by the worker in adapting his See also:design in detail to the purpose of the See also:article he is fashioning. The workmen who manufacture the most See also:artistic Bombay furniture are a See also:special class with inherited traditions. Often a See also:man knows only one design, which has been transmitted to him by his See also:father, who in his turn had had it from his father before him. In See also:recent years under See also:European auspices efforts have been made with a certain measure of success to modernize the See also:industry by introducing portions of the native See also:work into furniture of Western design. In the See also:main, however, the conventional patterns are still adhered to. " Bombay boxes " are inlaid in geometrical patterns on wood. The See also:Inlaying materials consist of the See also:wire, See also:sandal wood, sapan wood, See also:ebony, See also:ivory and stags' horns, and the effect produced by the See also:combination of See also:minute pieces of these various substances is altogether See also:peculiar and distinctive.

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