Photographs of the Wire and Tinsel Industry in Bengal - 1910

Wire and Tinsel Industry workers in Calcutta (Kolkata) . Photographs by Babu Mallinath Ray, published in a report in 1910.

Preparing salma

Preparing chumki(spangles)

Image decorators at work - preparing anklets, armlets, scarf

Image decorators at work - preparing anchla and mookoot

Exhibiting chumki, khankni, bullion, salma

Drawing of wire

Specimens of kinkhabs- brocades and cloth of gold and silver

Specimens of karchal (embroidery) work

Exhibiting scarf and crown

An image with tinsel decorations

Source: http://dsal.uchicago.edu/books/DSAL0001_1910/