In the Punjab region, wood inlay work took off approximately 350 years ago. Initially the artists started doing inlay work on Indian musical instruments such as Piano keys, Veena, Swarmandal, Taanpoora and Sitar but with the passage of time, the artists started manufacturing furniture items such as inlaid tables, chairs, wooden almirahas, jewellery boxes, chest boxes, trays and other items of daily use and decorated them with ivory. In 1975, Govt banned the use of Ivory and as such use of ivory was replaced with acrylic plastic.

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