Nothing here is machine made.
Hand-repoussé brass artworks, shaped in Lahore.
Explore Drop 001 →Drop 001 —
Court & Garden
Three studies drawn from Mughal architecture and its symbols: the window, the screen and the tree. Each is raised from brass by hand, in editions of three, seven and nine. 19 works in total.
Every mark
has a maker.
Look closely. Each indentation in this surface was struck by hand, in sequence, each one depending on the last. The surface is a record of the time spent making it.
From sheet
to surface.
Repoussé: the relief is pushed out from the back, then defined from the front. Six stages, all by hand.
- 01Sheet
Every work begins as a flat, unmarked sheet of brass, cut to the size of the finished piece. Nothing about it yet suggests a form.
- 02Drawing
The design is drafted on paper first, studied from the architecture it comes from. Then it is transferred line by line onto the sheet.
- 03Hammering
Working from the back of the sheet, the form is pushed outward with the chasing hammer, the chithrai hathora. This is repoussé: the relief is raised, not carved.
- 04Chasing
Turned over, the surface is defined from the front with punches and chisels, the qalam. Lines are sharpened, edges set, texture struck in.
- 05Refinement
The metal is heated to keep it workable, then reworked. Each stage builds on the marks before it, until every line serves the drawing.
- 06The work
Finally the work is polished, finished and framed. Three to four days of hammering for most pieces; weeks for the most complex.
The hand
behind WARQ.
Muhammad Sohail has worked brass for eighteen years. He learned the traditional methods from his mentor. Every work in Drop 001 was made by his hands.
“Every strike leaves something behind. The hammer is what joins my hands to the finished piece.”
- Years at the hammer
- 18
- Days for a single work
- 3–4
- Workshop
- Lahore
From the court to the sheet.
Each work begins with a building: its windows, screens and gardens. Motifs are studied, redrawn and only then struck into brass.
- 01 · Architecture
- 02 · Detail
- 03 · Pattern
- 04 · Drawing
- 05 · Brass
An archive in progress.
WARQ is building a body of work over time. Each drop studies one set of forms from the region’s history.
- 001Court & GardenMughal forms · Current
- 002In studyPersian-Islamic forms
- 003In studyGeometries
- 004In studyRegional heritage
Every work
is accounted for.
Each work comes with a numbered certificate recording its collection, edition, artist, technique and year. Scan the code on it to see the work’s record on warqstudio.com.
Verify a certificate →Certificate of
Authenticity
- Work
- Jharokha Darshan
- Collection
- Drop 001 — Court & Garden
- Artist
- Muhammad Sohail
- Technique
- Hand repoussé, brass
- Edition
- 1 of 3
- Year
- 2026
Made to be kept.
- Limited editions
- Numbered certificates
- Artist provenance
- Framed, ready to hang
- Insured delivery
- Commissions