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The Brass Village
Last Monday we visited a village whose main source of income is through creating/selling beautiful brass works. They do this through a process of wax displacement - creating the desired object first in wax, and then coating the object in several layers of ashes mixed with palm fibers and water at different layers of consistency, and drying each layer before adding another, thicker layer. The final layer is mixed with clay, then dried and baked with a clay mold attached to one end that contains assorted brass scrap metal. As it is heated, the metal melts, as does the wax, and when it is removed from the fire it is turned over so that the melted brass displaces the hollow area left by the melted wax. There should be a photo of a bike in both its wax form and in its final form attached, so you can see the intricate objects they can create through this process.
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