Handmade Paper Decorative Box

The lavish leaves of the chinar, or Old World sycamore flaunt their bright beauty against a background of buttercup yellow. Sajad crafts a diminutive decorative box, perfect for small personal treasures. He works in the style of Kashmir, crafting the container of weeping willow wood. He then covers it with papier mache in an art form that originated in Persia in the 15th century, and paints the colorful leaves by hand. They are protected with a coat of lacquer.