Hunarmand

نقاشی · Papier-mâché / Naqashi

Farooq Ahmad Mir

2nd Generation · Papier-mâché / Naqashi · Fateh Kadal, Srinagar

1950+ · 2 gens

Holds the last pot of an 1840s cobalt-blue pigment — a recipe lost everywhere else.

FM
Sanad Verified ✓
Pieces signed
96
Disputes
0
Workshop slots
4 open
Lineage est.
1950

The hand still remembers

What Only Farooq Knows

Captured from his Vault — knowledge that exists nowhere else.

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Click a node — 4 techniques captured

Currently viewing · Layered Gold-Leaf Naqashi

His work

Pieces by Farooq

Every piece signed, signed pieces verifiable on the Sanad.

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Book Time With Farooq

4 open slots in the next month.

2–3 hours

Heritage Walk

Rs. 2,500per person

Visit the master's workshop and three nearby craft clusters with a Sanad-verified guide.

Max 8 participants

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4 hours

Half-Day Workshop

Rs. 6,000per person

Learn one foundational technique hands-on. Take home your attempt + a Hunarmand certificate.

Max 6 participants

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3 days

Multi-Day Masterclass

Rs. 45,000per person

Advanced technique taught directly by the master. Limited to 2 participants.

Max 2 participants

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The preserved knowledge

Preserved in the Vault

This is Farooq's Craft DNA — knowledge captured for researchers, apprentices, and future generations.

Lineage

Family · place · year

  • Father painted Mughal-court reproductions; son carries the same brushwork.
  • The Fateh Kadal studio is on the second floor of a 200-year-old wooden house.

Technique Walkthrough

How the work is made

  • Cobalt is mixed with one drop of walnut oil for warmth.
  • A floral motif is always drawn freehand, never traced.

Decision Knowledge

When to start, when to stop

  • If the cobalt batch shifts more than half a tone, it is set aside for trial pieces.
  • Smaller boxes are sold; larger panels are loaned to museums.

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Where the materials begin

  • Two kilograms of cobalt remain — enough for fifteen years of work.
  • Lacquer is distilled in a friend's distillery in Pampore.

The thread, generation by generation

The Mir Lineage

2 generations on the same craft, since 1950.

  1. AM

    Abdul Rahim Mir

    ca. 1950s

    Generation 1

  2. FM

    Farooq Ahmad Mir

    current — present

    Generation 2