Understanding the Background of Carved Wooden Furniture form where it was originated.

Carving on Wooden is the oldest Art learned by the human. Carved wooden furniture origin from India and its sub continents. When the first time wooden carvings done on temples and spiritual monuments by the wooden artisan of India and it was spread all over the world from India including Chine, Kampuchea, Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, Europe and Africa when the Indian artisan were gone to these countries with this art. Carved wooden furniture was done by these wooden artisans and other wooden items including doors, ceilings and various fittings carved in teak, sheesham, mango and other kind of woods are also used by these artisans. The Somnath Temple in Gujarat from the northwest coast is famous for its beautiful wooden art work. The doors of Somnath temple are famous for their magnificence and are highly valued as sacred relics. The Other sculptures at the Great Stupa at Bharhut, in northern India, which was constructed dating back approximately in the middle of 2nd century BC are the earliest examples of this Wooden art. All the figures at Bharhut are like a series in which ancient happenings or small events are depicted in the form of a continuous narration.

Similar Carved Wooden Furniture was also started to design in the same era when people looks the design of wooden artwork in these templates and they used the same Carved Wooden Furniture. Carved Wooden Furniture was made of red wood which are easily available in those days all over India and this was suitable and solid to make wooden furniture.

Now a day, Saharanpur in Uttar Pradesh is the main center for Carved Wooden Furniture. Here in sahranpur the origins of the Carved Wooden Furniture and craft can be traced back to the late 17th century when the wooden works was started by some Muslims came from Afghanistan Iran and Iraq because they are very religious and love the wooden art. They spread the Carved Wooden Furniture all over the Worlds. Closely associated with architecture, Carved Wooden Furniture incorporated the design vocabulary of Wood carving furniture. Carved Wooden Furniture was also influenced by Kashmiri designs, with many of the crafts persons having descended from Kashmiri immigrants. These influences continue to reflect in contemporary products like the finely chiseled screens like anguri and jaali work and vine leaf pattern found in many Saharanpur Furniture Products.
With its development into a major hub for Carved Wooden Furniture, wood carvers from other centers have also migrated in Saharanpur. As a result, Saharanpur was boasted of wide and highly skilled artisans of wooden technician and products, catering to both the domestic and export markets.