Prakāsham — Copper Revealed

__it is the unveiling — silver sheathing laid over copper, then engraved to let the hidden metal breathe. It is a dialogue between surface and depth, concealment and revelation.

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Chillāi

__silver is not only polished to brilliance — it is surrendered. Cut back, pared away, drawn open. What remains is not absence, but revelation. This gesture of engraving carries echoes across cultures: the French art of sgraffito, where layers are incised to uncover a hidden tone; the Japanese engravings of kebori and katakiri-bori, where the depth and angle of each line summon light and shadow; and our own inheritance of chitai, where patterns are etched so that the metal gleams like a jewel.


Prakāsham gathers these traditions and allows them to speak in copper’s voice — warm, earthen, alive. Silver becomes the veil, copper the pulse beneath, and engraving the language between them.

Silvery moonlight - let those rays shine

The line of the engraving is their meeting point — as deliberate as ink on paper, as fluid as a brushstroke on silk, as decisive as a cut on lacquer. It is the threshold where the visible and invisible exchange places.

Each vessel emerges as a landscape of contrasts: fields of polished silver fractured by glowing copper, patterns that echo leaves and petals, ritual geometries, or the slow orbit of celestial bodies. They are not static objects but shifting surfaces, alive with the play of light and shadow.

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"To engrave is to reveal, and to reveal is to give light. This is the essence of Prakāsham — a philosophy that beauty does not always rest on the surface, but waits beneath, patient, enduring, and eternal. With time, as silver softens and copper deepens, each piece grows into its own radiance — a light no longer only of the artisan’s making, but of the hands, rituals, and lives it passes through."