Filigree differs from crocheting and needle work completely. Another beautiful and artistic branch of handicraft is inlaying or incrustation. This art is in fact the art of decorating the surface of wooden objects with small triangular mosaics. The finer the designs, the shapes, and the arrangement of the mosaics, the finer the quality of the work. The quality of the raw materials is another criterion of the quality of the work.
Craftsmen use avariety of raw materials.
Things like, ebony, areca wood, sour orange wood, jujube wood, different kinds of bones, such as, camel bones, cow bones, horse bones, ivory, and metal wires like copper, bronze, and occasionally gold and silver. In inlaid work, the raw materials are cut into triangular prism shaped pieces of 1 to 2 milli metres which are then arranged side by side to form different patterns.