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Acharya Shri Kailassagarsuri Gyanmandir
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Ghoti
In Rajasthani language is a burnisher. During the course of manufacture of any painting either on paper or on cloth, it is burnished with an agate burnisher from the back. It is laid flat on a smooth marble slab and is rubbed over with an agate stone burnisher which is fixed to a wooden handle. Generally, a circular flat stone piece of agate, about 3" diameter, in sunk in to a circular wooden block with its polished smooth surface projecting slightly out of the block below. This is a hand burnisher which is used for burnishing small pictures.
There are three types of burnishers used by the painter and the scribes. The first is a single hand operated one, used for smaller pictures and for burnishing golden calligraphic letters. The second is a larger variety which is made of a single solid block of wood having two handles. In this case the agate stone projects below as said above and the user can exert sufficient pressure on the back of a cloth Patas or Pichhwais. It is also used from the front, after applying flour paste on them, to block the poars of the textile. These are quite commonly used at Nathadwara, near Udaipur. The third type is called the dog tooth burnisher which is in the shape of a dog's tooth. This is a British made instrument and is used for burnishing golden letters and photo frames etc. The Indian counterpart of the above is the tooth of a wild boar and its nails. Burnishers are made out
Prosses of burnishing cloth paintings
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