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Inlaid on black lacquer, gleaming golden foil creates a chessboard pattern. Nantana Sompamitre works with mango wood to craft a box for business cards. A Thai technique dating back many generations, lacquer art is masterfully demonstrated in this design.

This lovely jewelry box crafted from papier mache is a pretty haven for your beloved treasures. Drawing inspiration from the celebrated lacquer miniature art of Uzbekistan, Hojiakbar Vohidov crafts the box followed by a meticulous hand-painting technique that merges acrylics, watercolors and tempera paints. Adorned with contemporary geometric patterns in lively hues.

The Silk Road was, for many, a portal to a new world full of luxury and beauty. Today, the ancient market of wonders has left a stunning art style that embellishes Uzbekistani artisan Mukhamedali's walnut wood jewelry box. Featuring a sturdy structure, the accessory comes with a traditional hand-painted design on the lid, filled with floral and leafy motifs arranged in a geometric pattern of red and yellow hues.

The Aral Sea accompanies Uzbekistan every day, in every season, and for eternity, inspiring Mukhamedali to create a gorgeous collection inspired by this stunning landscape and its nature. Working with walnut wood, the artisan crafts a lacquered jewelry box featuring a traditional pattern on the lid, painted by hand in a palette of blue and yellow hues that add a serene touch to the flowers adorning the piece.

Delicate snowflakes flutter to earth in deep, soft drifts. The exquisite mosaic adorns a mango wood vase, finished in lacquer. Working with ancestral techniques, Nantana Sompamitre crafts the beautiful piece by hand. Once the wood is carved into the desired shape it is coated with lacquer. Once dried it is polished, and another coat is applied – up to twenty times – before as many six coats of pure lacquer are present. The final layer is polished with powdered fired clay. Next, eggshells are cleaned and cracked into small pieces. Sompamitre arranges them in the desired pattern on a fresh coat of lacquer. The piece is lacquered twice more and sanded in water until the eggshells appear.