Brass Latkan

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We have none of these in hand at the moment Better said at the top than discovered at checkout. Every subject and every size is out of stock, and that is the position across the store rather than just on this page. The buy buttons still work, so an order placed today is a wait rather than a dispatch, and we are not going to put a date on it we cannot keep. If you want one particular design that may still be the right call, because the range is small and each subject exists in one form only, so there is nothing to substitute it with. If you need brass in the house this week, the brass murtis and the brass diyas and pooja pieces are stocked and shipping. The rest of this page is here so you know what the range is. What a brass latkan is, and what it is not A latkan is anything that hangs, and most of what the word turns up is fabric: beaded moti latkans, tassels and mirror work made for weddings and for a mandap. This is a different object entirely. A brass latkan is cast metal with a row of small bells strung beneath it, hung in a doorway, and it is permanent in a way the fabric kind is not. It is heavy enough to need a real hook, it is bought once rather than every season, and it survives being knocked. If the beaded kind is what you want, this is the wrong page and we do not make them. Where it goes Inside the main door frame is the usual place, and the pooja room doorway is the other. Measure the door swing before you fix a hook, because the common mistake is mounting it where the leaf presses flat against it, which silences the bells instead of sounding them. Keep it under cover. A porch that takes driving rain is the one place brass will not thank you for, and an entrance that gets both sun and monsoon will darken it far faster than an indoor doorway. The subjects, and what each is for Swastik and Om Swastik carry the auspicious mark to the threshold, which is where most households draw it in kumkum anyway; the brass version is the permanent form of a mark that