How Silver Work Made: Be it a festival or a special ceremony, people take sweets etc. for each other. What to say if there is silver work on the sweets! People eat sweets made of silver with great enthusiasm. By the way, as soon as silver work is applied, the price of sweets also increases a lot. Seeing this applied on sweets, everyone’s mouth starts watering. Apart from sweets, silver work is also used in worship and fasting etc. But many people do not use it in worship, fasting etc. They say that animal leather is used to make it. Let us know why silver work is used and how it is made…
What is silver work?
Actually silver leaf is a very fine layer made of silver. Which is especially applied after making sweets, such as Kaju Katli, Besan Chakki, Bengali sweets etc. Vark Lagi Mithai looks very scrumptious and delicious, seeing which everyone’s mouth gets watery. Apart from sweets, this silver is used for decoration, paan, making sweet betel nut, offering it on packeted cardamom, dates and Chyawanprash etc.
Why was silver work used?
Actually, silver has anti-bacterial properties which protect the sweets from getting spoiled for a long time. Mainly because of this quality of silver, the practice of applying silver work on sweets started. Nowadays it is also being used for decoration. Due to its antimicrobial properties, the possibility of bacterial growth on sweets reduces, due to which that food can be saved from poisoning.
How is silver work made?
Leather is used to make silver work. The silver leaf (silver) is placed in the leather and made thinner by hammering it for a long time with a special type of hammer. By doing this the silver turns into a thin membrane-like layer. This fine layer is called silver work. After this it is taken out and packed in paper and sold in the market. The silver work made in animal skin is no longer usable in worship, fasting etc. That’s why the use of any part of the animal for making work was banned. Earlier animal leather was used to make silver work, on which people objected, so now a sheet called German butter paper or specially made black paper is being used to make it. Now-a-days silver work is being made with the help of machines. Due to which they can be used in worship or fasting etc.
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