Carving of the finest handicrafts of Fars province

Carving of the finest handicrafts of Fars province

Carving is the art of artists who create valuable products with cheap and simple raw materials, artists who, with a few pens and metal scans, align their minds with Kufic lines, Islamic motifs, khatai and flowers, chickens, lions, elephants, and so on. Achaemenid designs carved on wood.
Carving is an art that includes engraving and carving on wood. This handicraft symbolizes the feeling, perception, thought and creativity of artists who invent works of art with great taste.
Carving is done in two types, small and large, on wood, ivory and bone, and includes sculpture, half-face and full face, Islamic, Khatai and other petals.
The history of woodcarving is not very clear, and it is not possible to say exactly when this art was invented and popularized. The oldest surviving inlaid work, dating to the first half of the third century AH, is a wooden hut belonging to the Shiraz Antiquities Mosque, built during the lifetime of Leith Saffari.
During the Sassanid era, the art of woodcarving and engraving had more development and progress, and their multiplicity and variety have increased. It is the most beautiful type of engraving and an example of the progress of this art at that time.
Carving, like inlaying during the Safavid period, progressed rapidly, and woodcarving artists left beautiful works in this period.
Among the cities of Iran, the two cities of Abadeh and Shiraz are among the centers where inlaid work and other disciplines of this art are very popular, and especially in the city of Abadeh, this art is more prosperous.