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For making a Miniature and a Mo‘arraq tableau, first the special design should be stuck on a 4mm- thick wood- board.

Then the design should be cut on the wood - board by a saw, so that every flower, branch and all other parts of the design can be separated from the background.

Then the background on the board should be installedin a frame, prepared in advance.

Now the cut and separated pieces are used as a pattern. It means that the pattern, should be fixed on the wood by nail or glue and then the wood is cut exactly as the pattern Then the pattern ,should be separated from the wood and the wood piece, which was cut exactly like the pattern, should be placed on its own place on the frame.

After pasting all parts of the design on the frame , the background wood , around the work should be removed and the design which is embossed can be seen on the frame . So the design is about 3-4 mm above the background of the frame and the space around it is deep and empty.

Then the empty parts should be filled with black or any desired polyester paste. When the polyester paste is dried , tableau‘s surface should be polished and become ready for miniature painting. The miniature painting is used for drawing faces, shading the objects and creating relations among various parts .In particula, art of miniature is the spirit of Mo‘arraq.

At the end of the work, the external surface of the tableaus should be covered with colorless and transparrent polyester. The back of the tableaus should also be covered with black polyester in order to make it resistant and strong against humidity and insects.

These kind of tableaus are washable. Just the heat of more than 40 degrees centigrade and heavy strokes can cause damages to these tableaus.