Craft
The Anatomy of a Metal Card: How a Blank Becomes an Heirloom
Inside the Chhapai Lab bench where brass, steel and copper are coaxed into objects that outlast their owners.
Every metal card that leaves the Chhapai Lab floor begins as a flat, unremarkable blank. What transforms it into an heirloom is a sequence of decisions made by hand and machine, each one cumulative, none of them reversible. This is a short tour of that sequence.
