Wednesday, June 23, 2010
The human nature has always been to decorate every thing in use. From the beginning of mankind he had started to express his emotions by carving out all his feelings in stones & wood.Thus, it resulted in the beginning of carving craft. Though the carving in the solid surface is everlasting but in the wood it is not as satisfactory due to its comparatively soft tendency. Usually we face cracks, to be damaged by insects, or to suffer from changes in the atmosphere. In spite of all these odds artisans have always been successful in defeating these obstacles by their constant endeavor to produce better. According to the Encyclopedia Britannica Eleventh Edition, “Of late years carving has gone out of fashion. The work is necessarily slow and requires substantial skill, making the works expensive. Other and cheaper methods of decoration have driven carving from its former place. Machine work has much to answer for, and the endeavor to popularize the craft by means of the village class has not always achieved its own end. The gradual disappearance of the individual artist, elbowed out as he has been, by the contractor, is fatal to the continuance of an art which can never flourish when done at so much a yard”. Since the ages this statement has been proved wrong, not only the survival but more & more pieces of magnificent craftsmanship are continue taking shape by the skilled hands of woodcarvers by this day.
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