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When the solvent dries off, a hard, transparent and shiny protective layer is left.\r\nSir George Watt, in his catalogue of the Delhi Durbar exhibition Indian Art at Delhi, Calcutta 1903, describes the technique: 'Kashmir papier miffers considerably from that of Europe. The paper is never exactly reduced to a pulp. It is simply softened and pasted together, layer upon layer, within a mould until by repeated slow drying and replacing within the mould while addistions are made the article attains the correct shape and desired thickness. While moist it is wrapped round with a thin muslin rag and covered with a layer of a dressing material said to be plaster-of-paris (or gach). The article is next smoothed and rubbed down till it is given the required uniform surface to allow of the ground colour (zamin) being imparted. When this is dry the pattern is painted in water colours and when thoroughly set is glazed by the purest and most transparent varnish procurable. This is usually made from copal (sundras) dissovled in turpentine, not boiled in oil.' 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