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The Wood Carving Gallery of the museum not only exhibits artefacts from India, but also from Nepal and Tibet. This gallery gives glimpses of India's wood carving tradition mainly belonging from 17th to 19th centuries illustrating the different styles of wood carvings from Rajasthan , Gujarat , Odisha and South India.
Likhai wood carving on the columns as seen in c.1860 in Almora Bazaar, Uttarakhand. Likhai ( Hindi for 'writing') refers to the ancient woodcarving tradition of Uttarakhand , a North Indian mountain state. [ 1 ]
Wood-carving examples of the first eleven centuries of CE are rare due to the fact that woods do decay easily in 1,000 years. The carved panels of the main doors of St Sabina on the Aventine Hill, Rome, are very interesting specimens of early Christian relief sculpture in wood, dating, as the dresses show, from the 5th century. The doors are ...
Skilled artisans crafted living rock to imitate timbered wood (such as lintels) in construction and grain and intricate decorative carving, although such architectural elements were ornamental and not functional in the classical sense. [31] Later many Hindu kings from southern India patronize many cave temples dedicated to Hindu gods and goddesses.
inlaid wood carving, Lalitha Mahal Palace Hotel. Mysore Rosewood Inlay covers a range of techniques used by artisans in around the area of Mysore in sculpture and the decorative for inserting pieces of contrasting, often coloured materials like ivory shells, mother-of-pearl, horn and sandalwood into depressions in a rosewood object to form ornament or pictures that normally are flush with the ...
Woodcarver at work Wood sculpture made by Alexander Grabovetskiy. Wood carving is a form of woodworking by means of 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 figurine, or in the sculptural ornamentation of a wooden object.
Modern woodcarving can be produced in a variety of forms and styles, from realist to abstract carvings, and often uses unusual wood materials such as rainwood or wood with unique textures to highlight the uniqueness of the work.In recent years, the art of modern wood carving has become increasingly popular among woodworkers and visual art ...
Terracotta shrine figure of Aiyanar, who is a male village guardian deity. The Crafts Museum was established in 1956 by the now defunct All India Handicrafts Board. [4] It was set up over a period of 30 years starting in the 1950s and 60s by the efforts of Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay, when the area was envisaged as an ethnographic space where craftsmen from various parts of India would come in to ...