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Lacquering on wood not only lends color and sparkles to the products, but also smoothen's outs the contours thereby imparting a lustrous finesse.

India is well known for ornamental lacquering involving intricate patterns like zig-zag and dana work, atishi, abri or cloud and nakkash. In Varanasi, a number of lacquered toys and miniature kitchen utensils for children to play with, are made.

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