HISTORY OF WOOD CARVING

Persian Wood carving(Monabat Kari)

woodcarvingAll Iranian handicrafts come from within the people. No person or persons played a role in inventing this eye-catching art, but ordinary people began to engrave and carve on wood (woodcarving).
Undoubtedly, wood is one of the most abundant materials in human history that has always existed in nature. According to the available works and documents, it can be concluded that woodcarving has been used in Iran for about 1500 years.
Some attribute the Persian woodcarving to before the Sassanid kingdom which can indicate the antiquity of this art in Iran.

Wood carving is one of the brilliant oldest arts of humankind. Wooden spears from the Middle Paleolithic, such as the Clacton spears, represent that people have engaged in functional woodwork for millennia.

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It is noticeable that Woodcarving is a form of woodworking via a cutting tool (knife) in one hand. Or a chisel by two hands or with one hand on a chisel and one hand on a mallet, resulting in a wooden figure, or the sculptural embellishment of a wooden object.

The phrase may also refer to the finished product, from individual sculptures to hand-worked mouldings composing part of a tracery.

woodcarvingThese days, it is not always realized these days to what extent color has been used to increase the effect of wood carving and sculpture even from the most ancient time.
The modern Color prejudice against gold and other tints is perhaps because the painted work has been simplified.
The arrangement of a proper and harmonious scheme of color is not the work of the house painter
, but the specially trained artist.

 

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