The district of Hoshiarpur (Punjab) produces dark sheesham furniture with painstakingly detailed dense foliage patterns that are both engraved and inlaid with acrylic, camel bone and shell. The motifs are either of Persian origin or adaptations of the exquisite wood carving in the havelis, mansions of Hoshiarpur. The foliage patterns, usually cypress trees, that appear in most of the inlay work are now being supplemented with figures and landscapes, the details of which are etched and coloured with natural ink. When the craft came up in this region, the woodworkers inlaid their wares with ivory remnants bought from the ivory carvers of Amritsar. Acrylic has become the primary material used in the inlay after the worldwide ban on ivory, introduced in 1989.