Bone Rosetta
Last year I acquired an Oud from Aleppo to train on and Lately I started a project to improve it. The oud has oval uncovered openings, so I thought
that I could make some Rosettas for them.
I did not want to make them from wood or plastic or use CNC machines, instead I wanted to make it manually and cut it by my hand from camel bone.
I searched Damascus for people who prepare such bones, and found a guy with a small workshop next to the Ummayyad moseque and in his he told me that
he has a rosetta drawing from Rophan Nahhat:
 20210325_035443 by Priapus_D, on Flickr
This drawing was for a circular Rosetta, so I tried to fill it up to cover the oval opening I have on my Oud, and I also wanted to change the name of
Rophan into my own name:
 20210325_205357 by Priapus_D, on Flickr
I pasted the design of the sheets of bone, and started cutting the design:
 20210326_035809 by Priapus_D, on Flickr
 20210416_214310 by Priapus_D, on Flickr
I did not like the calligraphic design for my name, so I went o a professional calligrapher and asked him to write my name in Nastaliq style and used
his design:
 20210421_211042 by Priapus_D, on Flickr
Here is my first attempt of installing the rosetta on the oud:
 20210421_211727 by Priapus_D, on Flickr
and this is the finished rosetta with all its components:
 20210422_082001 by Priapus_D, on Flickr
 20210719_114521 by Priapus_D, on Flickr
I wonder if anyone can share with me designs of Rosettas they have on the ouds, and what the material that the rosetta is made of.
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