Woodcarving,
Wood carving sculptures, teak wood carving
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Traditional woodcarving skills
are carefully
preserved in families and passed through generations.
Wood carved figures can be found in many designs like a fine lotus buds, blossoms and stems.
Woodcarving with
motives like floral
arabesque, figures depicting lions with flowing manes; mythic birds with human heads
such as a garuda, the king of
birds.
Figures and bas-relief
can be found in many countries but seldom are they done so as like in some south east Asia countries.
Today in particular because of
the technology the diversity in
woodcarving objects is overwhelming. There
are Buddha sculptures and other religious figures, nats or spirits;
elephants, buffalo, tiger, bullock cart and more as souvenirs prices are
reasonable.
In some countries wood is cheaper and softer than other materials but
is often not easy to
handle.
Carvers usualy take their time
to select wood for woodcarving |
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considering hardness, grain and
color. Many carvers prefer to work with hardwood such as rosewood,
ironwood, teak, tamalan (Dalbergia oliveri), hpaw (Adina
cordifolia), yamanay (Gmelina arborea) and more.
Woodcarving with simple tools
and patterns is common in Myanmar and Thailand. All is very
basic in terms of woodcarving supplies. Just woodcarving
knives and some polishing tools are used. Woodcarving
techniques are just the same as they where all the time
since hundreds of years.
Sometimes
a exhibition is held in Chiang Mai, Yangon or
elsewhere to show the best relief woodcarvings usually made
from teak panels. All teak wood in the region this days come
from Myanmar, it's almost all the time huge pieces of teak
which are little by little turned into decorative
masterpieces of wall decoration or for other purpose. Woodcarving
wood is cut into the required size, a sketch is drawn on it,
as you can see in the
relief wood carving picture below and the wood carver artist
start the work, it goes over a month and sometimes more
until the wood carved relief is finished.
Particular
beautiful in Thailand and Myanmar woodcarving are
intricate wood carving mirror frame made from teak wood as
you can see below. They also
do woodcarving boxes, Asia actually is a fertile ground
for all kind of woodcarving like carved jungle scene, carved
wooden village scenes, carving tree wood spirits and plenty
of other motives and ideas. The reason is the wood as a
material is widely available, and woodcarving has a long
tradition, especially in south east Asia.
In
Thailand lotus carved wooden panels and other Thai teak
woodcarving like small souvenir carved wood elephants,
other wooden elephant, sometimes carved chairs, wood carved
figure like female dancer are very popular among
tourists and the price is not so high, means the ideal
unique souvenir from the vacation.
Wood carving
sculptures are also very
popular such as carved wooden animals, wood art
of southeast Asi also includes, Asian village scene carving,
bas relief Buddha wood carving, bas relief wood carving, and
female dancers in teak . In
Thailand Chiang Mai woodcarvers shops are plenty some
bigger ones are along Kamphengphet Road, the pictures taken
below under Thai teak wood carving are from this shop,
more. |
Wood carving sculptures
Wood carving sculptures
Wood carving at Mandalay Myanmar |
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Wood carving teak frame |
Early wood
carving in Asia
was done already thousands of years ago, exotic great wood carved pieces are
the evidence, also Buddha teak carving are done since a very long time.
Early carving
was limited to simple forms and figures cut from a block of
wood on which the design has been sketched.
The only tools are one or two
razor-sharp knives and a chisel. Once a carver can handle a set of
chisels, basic figures are decorated with more elaborate ornamentation.
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Wood
carving teak frame |
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Wood carving teak panel |
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This skilled craftsman
(below)
carving ornate chairs and interior decorative panels, has completed years of
apprenticeship.
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Wood carving
elephant
Woodcarver working |
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Wood carving
sculptures
crocodile |
There are no limits to the artists’ imagination.
Tigers, crocodiles,
ceremonial bullock carts with some nicely carved bulls in front and
elephants are produced. |
Wood carved
Buddha and other Sculpture |
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Beautiful teak
wood carving of dancers |
Beautiful teak carvings of dancers, 70 centimeters tall -
below-, command a price of $50.00 and are a welcome addition for any
private home.
Similar wood carved objects are produced elsewhere but most of these are carved to some
extent by machine. |
Woodcarved puppets or
marionettes |
Wood relief
carving |
e.g. objects are well wrapped in good quality paper. Teak
carvings are the best quality. Carvings in Padauk wood and other hardwoods are
not as durable as teak and are more susceptible to worm infection.
There
is a other type of woodcarving art,
its the sacral art in monasteries
in Asia, especially south east Asia, also known as architectural
woodcarvings.
Buyers should also be aware
that the presence of moisture during shipping
can cause a damaging fungus growth.
Beautiful boxes made from exotic wood,
for gifts,
jewelry box and other. Different forms, sizes and patterns can be made. Wood carved animals, birds,
fish, flowers, walking sticks and more done by experienced and creative
carvers.
Visitors buying carvings to take home need to take precautions before goods
are packed and shipped. Paints and preservatives are not of good quality —
make sure wood carvings are thoroughly impregnated with
preservative, to ensure that
wood carved exotic dancer have a long life. |
Woodcarving
dancer exotic |
Wood carved
created monastery in Mandalay. |
Wood carved
created monastery corner in
Mandalay. |
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Statues at Mandalay
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Carved teak panel Mandalay Monastery
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Carvings at a Monastery |
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Thai
teak woodcarving
Wood carver
with teak wood |
Thai teak
woodcarving has a long tradition, its the same with
Myanmar teak woodcarving. The woodcarver first does a sketch
und / or design onto the teak wood panel.
After he uses
his woodcarving knives and other tools to carve the
scene out of the wood. Finally it becomes beautiful relief
woodcarving.
The picture
here and below are from a woodcarving shop |
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in Chiang Mai Thailand. The woodcarving pictures further
above are from Myanmar or Burma. |
Teak
panel carving jungle scene
teak
woodcarving jungle scene elephant |
Other people do wood carving for fun and to relax. Its
also a good way to teach yourself some patience, using your own
skill and creativity to create something just by taking a plain piece
of wood and create something unique. Wood sculpting and wood carving
with or without power tools is just joy for many people.
Inside every rough, splinter-ridden piece of wood lurks maybe a
graceful bird, a exotic dancer, a great jungle tree or other figure
just waiting to be set free. |
Teak
woodcarving Thai village scene |
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Teak
woodcarving jungle scene vertical |
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Famous for
its unique and beautiful natural teak woodcarvings Thai
and Myanmar wood carving art has a significant economic and
cultural factor in this two countries and elsewhere since
woodcarving products are available from many countries all
over the globe.
The economic aspect of wood carvings is a rather
recent development, before woodcarvings always had a great
local symbolic aspect. With better communication among
nations woodcarving items moved into new markets especially
as decorative items. Different types of materials are used
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woodcarvings but
undisputable the best is teakwood, it’s also the most
expensive from the material point of view.
Unique, exciting and very exotic sculptures all
handmade and using simple tools to remain unique even when
they are based on the same subject matter and design, such
as Buddha Statues and other carvings. No two items are
similar.
Wood is one of the most
important materials to artists because it is easily
accessible, easy to carve and relatively cheap as raw
material.
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Woodcarving,
Wood carving
sculptures,
teak wood carving
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