Kashmir Furniture

Moving into your brand new home. You must be surely looking for different ways to decorate the interiors and find out extraordinary ways to embellish it. If scanning through various types of furniture for your home décor then go for Kashmir furniture.

Kashmir has a very long woodcraft history with its prime time during Vijayanagar Empire (1336AD). They were familiar with different ways of cutting and using different types of wood. Kashmires are involved in various types of carpentry such as wood carvers and furniture makers. The rich craft heritage of Kashmir is popular worldwide.

It is unique and diverse. Especially, the wood carving industry in Kashmir is thriving and surviving on the walnut wood that grows heavily in the valley. The woods used for ornamental work in India are walnut, which provides the base for the fine workmanship of Kashmir and sandalwood, with its delicate natural fragrance is used in Mysore and a few other places in South India. Teak, sheesham, deodar, ebony, redwood, rosewood, red cedar, sal and many others are also used by Indian craftsmen, as they lend themselves to fine decorative carving and inlay work.

Kashmir is popular for excessive wood. In Kashmir, houses are lined with wood, ceilings worked in geometrical patterns and windows in lattice work.

The Kashmiri houseboat or guest boat is made on a specially seasoned wood. The Kashmiri walnut wood has a fine texture and smooth grain patterns. It is a very expensive wood.

The price of the Kashmir furniture depends on the grain pattern of the wood use and the detailing of the carving and the part of the tree used. Kashmir woodworkers work in the style of their ancestors with the simplest of tools. They work of the wood carver involves simple to fashioning furniture with intricate art work. The wood to make furniture is preserved by rubbing oil of bel-a-fruit.

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