WOOD CARVING
CRAFT CLUSTER FROM RAJASTHAN, INDIA.
The furniture of Rajasthan displays grandeur and elegance and allows you to decorate your home like a palace or haveli's. Carvings on chests, chairs, cradles and low tables are further embellished with brass sheet work or painted with dancing figures or painted with dancing figures or embellished with brass sheet work or painted with dancing figures or embellished with hunting scenes. Ramgarh (Shekhawati), Barmer and Bikaner are known for their carved wooden doors, chairs and boxes with fretted brass as decorative element. The Suthars, well known for their intricate wood carving, are either from Barmer, the region of Rajasthan or belong to the Meghwal community who carve stands for flour grinders, cots, camel and bullock carts and cradles for use by the village community; these objects are often decorated with carved details and small engraved metal elements. Their respective skills have been adapted to the requirements of the burgeoning urban and export markets and the city of Jodhpur now generates a range: of carved, painted, metal worked and antique-finished wood products.