Woodcarving

Woodcarving

Besides stone sculpture another art form worth mentioning is woodcarving. No visitor to the Kathmandu Valley can go without being impressed by the numerous extremely beautiful windows, doors, temple roof-struts and other intricately carved artifacts. As wood is vulnerable to the ravages of time well preserved specimens date back only to the fourteenth century.

Woodcarving has been an integral part of Nepalese architecture, some of the examples being the old palaces of Kathmandu, Patan and Bhaktapur and a number of different Viharas (monasteries) around the Valley.

Wood Carving Hadicrafts

The wooden carved handicrafts can be seen in the form of buddha statues, peacock windows, kumari windows etc from its early beginnings right up to modern times.

Carved Windows

The carved windows is common in temples and they can also be seen in the houses.